Indigenous Tribes in Papua New Guinea, Australia-The World's Last Stone Age

Papua New Guinea is one of the most charming island countries on earth. It is located in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, between Asia and Australia.

Prehistoric relics in Papua New Guinea still exist and are among the last countries to retain the most. This land with 800 islands and a total area of 462,000 square kilometers is covered with dense tropical jungles, leech-infested swamps and endless peaks more than 5000 meters high, a world full of vitality. Papua Island is the highest island in the world. The towering peaks are extremely steep and show a fascinating original beauty; the rivers are clear and rapid, and can only be crossed by stepping on tree trunks or rattan suspension bridges; dense fog is hidden from time to time. The land is shrouded in a mysterious tropical jungle.

There are more than 3.5 million people in this country, belonging to more than 1000 tribes, most of whom worship "fetishism." The indigenous people here are of medium build, dark skin, naturally curly hair, and strong bodies. Men, women and old like to wear bare upper bodies, earrings and nose ornaments. The nose ornaments are oddly shaped. The most common ones are piercing the nose with the tusks of wild boar, and the most common earrings are pearls and hawksbills.

Houses in Papua New Guinea are very simple. Some are built on hillsides, some extend along ridges, and some stand on top of mountains shrouded in clouds. Building materials and methods also vary. Houses on hillsides are made of bamboo, grass and palms; houses on ridges and hilltops are mostly made of natural stones; and people in the jungle build huts on big trees.

Indigenous tribes still use stone tools that have been used for thousands of years. They use stone axes to cut down trees. Use a stone hoe to weed the weeds. Cut through the prey with a stone knife. The most interesting thing is to use red-hot stones to cook vegetables. The operating procedure is: first dig a hole in the ground, lay a layer of leaves, put in vegetables or hunted wild animals and caught fish, and then use sweet potato leaves to bake the hot rocks. Wrap them up, place them between the foods, and then press them on with large stones. In less than an hour, the vegetables are cooked. This hot and fragrant food is their most delicious dish.

Salt is their most precious thing for the indigenous tribes living here. Because they have no salt fields and little homemade salt. Their salt making method is very unique: they pile up a kind of salt grass in the mountains, burn it to ashes, then place it in a gourd, soak it in water for a period of time, and it becomes salt water, then place it in bamboo slips, and steam it over fire. Remove moisture and become salt crystals. For hundreds of years, mountain tribes have often had conflicts and fights over this precious salt grass. In the fight, both sides were brave and good at fighting, and cut off each other's heads as a souvenir of the victory of the warriors.

Some tribes in this mysterious island country still follow the matriarchal system, with ancestral home and inherited property based on the mother system.

Today, the civilization of modern society has entered this ancient world that has been isolated for a long time. There are already green cocoa and coffee trees on the fertile soil along the coast, and there are flat roads. Ocean-going ships leading to the world are anchored on the docks along the road.