Danny Jones Podcast cover image

#164 - Strange Ancient Discoveries are Being Made in the Amazon Rainforest | Paul Rosolie

Danny Jones Podcast

00:00

The Uncontacted Tribes

The last contact that a lot of these tribes had with the outside world was during the rubber boom. They were enslaved by rubber barons who went down and they just enslaved the local people. And so it was like one of the worst human holocausts on the planet because they went and just massacred the indigenous population. Some of the tribes were like, we are not going to be put in chains. We're not going to being set on fire. So they moved back for as far as they could into the forest. The uncontacted tribes now speak a language that we don't really speak.

Transcript
Play full episode

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app