Wank the Andamanese and Sentinelese?

yoyo

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With any time after 100 AD and before 1051 AD(Chola invasion), wank their culture such that they are predominately slash and burn agriculturalists.
I'm thinking they adopt rice from the nicobarese and developing trading with the Tamils and Malays.
 

yoyo

Banned
The Tinmaitivu(andaman islands) falls under Chola influence and they develop further such that 1900 they are at par with Ghana.
 
The Andamanese settled mainland Myanmar and adopted agriculture, with a PoD BOTH before both Austroasiatic and Tibeto-Burmese migrations.
 

yoyo

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The Andamanese settled mainland Myanmar and adopted agriculture, with a PoD BOTH before both Austroasiatic and Tibeto-Burmese migrations.
But Austroasiatics spread rice agriculture so they need to have trade contact with china and adopt rice before the austroasiatics arrive. Very hard to do though.
They are close to Nicobarese which are austroasiatics and i think at one point used rice so they adopt rice from this weaker group and by the pallava period are dry field rice farmers. Then by chola period they adopt wet rice and begin forming a small indian influenced region. By Modern era they are at par with the sub-saharan africa.
 
A natural hybrid of Musa paramjitiana, Musa indandamanensis and/or Musa sabuana.

The difference however between most domesticated bananas would result in a starch root and stem that can be shredded, buried and stored.

The result would be a lot like ensete, where on the land its cultivated has the highest rural densities in the world of 499 people per hectare.

Now of course that density is due in large part to cow manure to boost yield returns. In this ATL andamanese islander domesticate the local boar species in pens that are then planted with this banana species being feed waste from stem shreddings, fruit and wild coconut (much like nicobarese pig farmers) and as a result I imagine a population density of up to 150ish people per hectare.
 
With any time after 100 AD and before 1051 AD(Chola invasion), wank their culture such that they are predominately slash and burn agriculturalists.
I'm thinking they adopt rice from the nicobarese and developing trading with the Tamils and Malays.
What If they became Hindus ?
 

yoyo

Banned
What If they became Hindus ?
Possible, but I doubt Brahmins would want anything to do with them. Even if they adopted rice agriculture from Nicobarese(austroasiatics) and adopted more advanced tech from Pallava dynasty or Malays they would millenia behind most eurasian civilizations. it's more plausible if they adopt european christianity later on like east timor.
 
Possible, but I doubt Brahmins would want anything to do with them. Even if they adopted rice agriculture from Nicobarese(austroasiatics) and adopted more advanced tech from Pallava dynasty or Malays they would millenia behind most eurasian civilizations. it's more plausible if they adopt european christianity later on like east timor.

Texts from the Shatapatha Brahmana to the later Shrauta-Sutra texts all mention Niṣādas (Munda peoples, Bhils and other non-Indo-Aryan tribal groups) slowly being subsumed into the Vedic fold, with many Bhils especially being ordained in as Brahmins off the bat. They were technologically on par with the Andamanese when first contact was made between them and the Indo-Aryans. As for that matter, theoretically the distant kingdoms of Tarumanagara, Kutai, Galuh and Medang kingdoms would have been even worse as mlecchas from outside the Jambudvipa but Brahmins still went from Kalinga and the realms of the Pallava dynasty to Indianize the place.

If the Andamanese, Sentinelese, or Nicobarese were to develop a more sedentary and agricultural landscape it is beyond doubt that the various ships from Indian polities that stopped there historically would have likely made a more permanent base and left the place as either Hindu or Buddhist.
 
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