Uncontacted peoples in Eurasia

Given the recent news involving the people of North Sentinel Island in the Andamans, I have to ask if a similar people could exist in Europe.

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But, I know this idea is pretty wacky, so instead of just Europe I've expanded it so that places like say the remote fringe of the North Sea, the Lapland and other upper bits of Scandinavia, the Arctic Circle, Central Asia, the Caucasus Mountains, the Empty Quarter, Siberia, and so on can be included.
 
How about a timeline where the Norse never settle Iceland and instead it is settled by Inuit during the Thule expansion (they reach Iceland using the sea ice from Greenland I guess??). I could see there remaining uncontacted groups of Icelandic Inuit, cut off from the main Euorpean-settled area of Iceland (in TTL, the presence of Natives would lead to reduced European settlement of Iceland, more akin to that of OTL Greenland) by glaciers, fjords and volcanos.
 
After perestroyka and the end of the Soviet Union, some Siberian villages were contacted and told that Communism was over. Their answer? "What's Communism? Did something happen to the Tsar?"
 
After perestroyka and the end of the Soviet Union, some Siberian villages were contacted and told that Communism was over. Their answer? "What's Communism? Did something happen to the Tsar?"
IIRC some Red Guards who were "sent-down" had to explain to the villagers that the Qing had been overthrown.
 
How about a timeline where the Norse never settle Iceland and instead it is settled by Inuit during the Thule expansion (they reach Iceland using the sea ice from Greenland I guess??). I could see there remaining uncontacted groups of Icelandic Inuit, cut off from the main Euorpean-settled area of Iceland (in TTL, the presence of Natives would lead to reduced European settlement of Iceland, more akin to that of OTL Greenland) by glaciers, fjords and volcanos.

Iceland is pretty small and actually not bad land for Europeans (unlike Greenland). They'd find the Inuit there pretty fast and eventually follow a similar path to Greenland.

More likely would be a hypothetical Inuit group like the Sea Thule in Lands of Ice and Mice who colonise many of the northern islands in the Arctic. While whalers and others found these islands as early as the 17th century, some are so remote and also not terrible to live on so that some remote part of, say, Franz Josef Land could have an Inuit-descended group with no contact from outsiders into the 20th century. And as the Sentinelese show, they just need to violently refuse contact for the best chance of survival. Some suggest the actions of the British in abducting some islanders helped cause Sentinelese hostility. We know the actions some of the few people who might visit these Inuit--raping women, selling alcohol, stealing their stuff, murder, etc. could inspire a similar hostility.
 
After perestroyka and the end of the Soviet Union, some Siberian villages were contacted and told that Communism was over. Their answer? "What's Communism? Did something happen to the Tsar?"
There had been some some ultra religious Orthodox hermits who lived in the wilderness ( one family in particular)after the Revolution into the 1970es under primitive conditions. They founded families and hunted with bow and arrow.
 
There had been some some ultra religious Orthodox hermits who lived in the wilderness ( one family in particular)after the Revolution into the 1970es under primitive conditions. They founded families and hunted with bow and arrow.
And when we brought them to progress the men of the family turned into alcoholics and died or something
The joys of our civilization lmao
 
Given the recent news involving the people of North Sentinel Island in the Andamans, I have to ask if a similar people could exist in Europe.

See:

cc-thelastromans.gif


But, I know this idea is pretty wacky, so instead of just Europe I've expanded it so that places like say the remote fringe of the North Sea, the Lapland and other upper bits of Scandinavia, the Arctic Circle, Central Asia, the Caucasus Mountains, the Empty Quarter, Siberia, and so on can be included.
Maybe some isolated peoples in Urals or somewhere else in mountain areas. Interesting maybe Denisovan holdouts in Sibiria. Possibility that they are not even identified as another species.
 
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And when we brought them to progress the men of the family turned into alcoholics and died or something
The joys of our civilization lmao

On the other hand, it seemed to work out for these guys

The Pintupi Nine were a group of nine Pintupi people who lived a traditional hunter-gatherer desert-dwelling life in Australia's Gibson Desert until 1984, when they made contact with their relatives near Kiwirrkurra.

Lost tribe happy in modern world

Warlinipirri, his three brothers, Walala, Thomas and Yari Yari, three sisters, Yardi, Yikuljti and Tjakaraia, and two "mothers", Nanyanu and Papalanyanu, were the last Aborigines living a traditional nomadic existence.

They became known as the Pintupi Nine.

All were born in the desert. None knows their exact age.

The brothers were aged between about 14 and 20 when they "came in". The girls were all in their teens, the mothers in their late 30s.

When the family were driven from the doctor at Kintore 27km to the smaller community of Kwiwikurra, the nomads ritually beat members of their extended families with sticks for not bringing them in from the desert earlier.

"The older ones were angry that their long-lost relatives – who they had not seen for nearly 20 years – had left them out in the desert eating lizards while they lived in what they saw as the lap of luxury," Mr Tull said.

Alison Anderson, now a member of the Legislative Assembly, remembers the clan being brought to the Yuendemu sports carnival a few weeks later.

"They bought ice creams from a van but weren't sure what they were. They just stared at them," Ms Anderson said.

What made the nomads give up their life in the desert?

"They knew they had no future," Mr McMahon said.

"They were all closely related – there were no women for the men and no men for the women. They were going to die out."

None of the nomads regrets coming in from the desert.

"I like this life," Yardi said. "I much prefer it to the old ways."

Warlinipirri said: "I wouldn't go back."

Melbourne art dealer Kit Ballan, who was in the Alice buying paintings when I met Warlinipirri, said: "We see the nomadic life in the desert as utopian.

"But, in reality, it would have been hard beyond our imagining.

"Every day would have been dominated by the search for food and water."

Edit: wait a second, the Eastern Orthodox hermits didn't die out because of civilization

The Lykov family (Russian: Лыков) was a Russian family of Old Believers.[1] The family of six is known for spending 42 years in complete isolation from human society in an otherwise uninhabited upland of Abakan Range, in Tashtypsky District of Khakassia (southern Siberia). Since 1988, only one daughter, Agafia, survives.

In 1978 their location was discovered by a helicopter pilot, who was flying a geological group into the region. The geologists made contact with the family, but the Lykovs decided not to leave the place.[6]

Akulina died of hunger in 1961. Three of the children died in 1981. Karp died in 1988. He is survived by his daughter Agafia Lykova who continued to live in isolation until 16 January 2016[7]when she was airlifted out to a hospital in Tashtagol, Russia, from her remote location near Kazakhstan's and Mongolia's borders. Her condition is related to cartilage deterioration in her lower extremities.[8][9] Agafia was treated at a hospital in Tashtagol, and planned to return to the wilderness once emergency services were able to airlift her home.
 
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I wonder what life must be like being completely oblivious to the existence of all modern technology and ideas. When these uncontacted tribes get visited by outsiders, it must be the closest real-life analog we can get to humans being contacted by space aliens.
 
An undiscovered tribe was found in Alaska. They seemed to like civilization until they saw a television. It was on Keeping Up With The Kardashians. The tribe immediately walked back into the wilderness.
 
An undiscovered tribe was found in Alaska. They seemed to like civilization until they saw a television. It was on Keeping Up With The Kardashians. The tribe immediately walked back into the wilderness.

My roommate's wife is on a Real Housewives of the O. C. kick right now. If it doesn't stop soon I might be fixing to join that tribe in the wilderness...
 
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