Paul Rosolie

And, you know, here's again, one of those things where when I went down there, you would hear by the campfires, these stories that deep, deep, deep out in the jungle, there are these people that are completely naked that have no idea that they live in a country called Peru or Brazil.

They've never heard of these things.

They've never in, in our region,

There's no rocks.

We're at the headwaters of the Amazon.

So it's really a clay bottom.

You could go all day and not see a rock.

You go for three weeks and not see a rock.

So, you know, someone, an anthropologist actually said to me, he goes, you know, you realize they're pre-stone age.

He said, they don't have stones.

And then there's another view that says that these are splintered off of other tribes that they're not, they haven't been out there for 10,000 years.

They're actually running scared from the rubber boom and they're just surviving as best they can, but we don't really know.

And so the way that they're living is that they have bows and arrows, six foot tall bows with these giant arrows.

When I've showed these arrows to people, they always go, that's a spear.

And I go, no, that's an arrow.

And they fire those arrow spears with incredible accuracy and speed.

And, you know, for years you'd hear like, oh, some loggers went up this river and the tribes cut them, you know, with the arrows that could go completely through their body, these huge, huge arrows.

And they'd put bamboo tips that were, you know, 17 inches long and as wide as a big steak knife.

And it was always somebody's uncle or cousin that had been out, these tall tales you hear.

then two years ago we were out as directors of jungle keepers working with this very remote indigenous community and everybody started screaming and they said they're here so what do you mean they're here and we looked across the beach and it was like you were looking through a time machine because across the beach were these hunched over almost paleolithic looking figures completely naked