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  ScienceDaily: Andaman Islands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
It is estimated that less than ten percent of the population of the Andaman Islands is indigenous Andamanese including in 2005, only 99 Onge, 250 Sentinelese, 39 Andamanese and 350 Jarawas.
The Jarawa, ×nge, and Sentinelese mostly speak their own languages, and limit their contact with outsiders.
The earliest European notice of the Andamanese is in a remarkable collection of early Arab notes on India and China from the year 851 which influenced the view of this people until modern times.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/andaman_islands   (5181 words)

  
 Andaman Islands
A century ago, the indigenous Andamanese lived mostly by hunting, gathering, fishing, and some agriculture, which are still the primary way of life of the Jarawa, Önge, and Sentinelese peoples of the southern part of the archipelago.
The indigenous Andamanese are slightly built, dark-skinned, with tightly-curled hair, and physically resemble the Semang of the Malay Peninsula and the Aeta of the Philippines.
The earliest European notice of the Andaman Islanders is in a remarkable collection of early Arab notes on India and China from the year 851 which influenced the view of this people until modern times.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/an/andaman_islands.html   (4033 words)

  
 Negrito and Negrillo
New Delhi: The Sentinelese, anthropologically the most important tribe, living on the flat North Sentinel Island has a population of about 100, officials say no body count is possible as the tribe had remained isolated.
The Jarawa, Onge, Sentinelese and Great Andamanese are all African in origin and are believed to have settled in the Andaman islands as long as 60,000 years ago.
The analysis of mitochondria DNA, a genetic element passed down only through women showed the Onges and Jarawas belong to a lineage known as M that is common throughout Asia.
www.stewartsynopsis.com /Synopsis%206.htm   (5346 words)

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