A mysterious African tribe that even their own people don’t understand (10 photos)

For Europeans, all other nations seem strange. What It’s logical, because they are different. The same can be said in principle in the attitude of different races towards each other. But this ethnic group is so strange that even other peoples of the Dark Continent consider him a stranger among theirs.





The Hottentots are an African tribe that in the 17th century discovered during colonization by the Dutch, appearance if not alien, This is definitely not typical for Africans. Like a language that's more like to the chirping of birds. Or the speech of a person with a defect. After all, the Dutch gave The natives call it hottentot - “stutterer”.



The skin of the Hottentots is not black, but yellowish-dark. curly Coarse hair forms dense tufts. Sharply defined cheekbones, narrow eyes, a sharp chin and a flattened nose add up to more a representative of the Mongoloid race rather than an African.



The Khoikhoin people, as the natives called themselves before the arrival of the colonialists, inhabited the southern part of the continent. But in search for a better life, warlike Bantu came here from the north, interested an excess number of cows from their southern neighbors.

The Hottentots are peace-loving, diligent pastoralists. Besides do not differ in strength and article: the height of the average man does not exceed 1.6 meters. And women are even lower. So they had to make room. And those who came Europeans generally considered babies to be some kind of intermediate branch of evolution. Like intelligent monkeys. What contributed to the unusual physiology? representatives of this people.

Specific physique



Hottentot woman

We are talking about the physique of women who have increased fat deposition in the buttocks and thighs. In science, this phenomenon is the name is steatopygia - that is, increased deposition of subcutaneous fat layer on the buttocks and thighs. For some people in South Africa this genetically determined feature.



Still from the film "Black Venus"

Europeans were so impressed by the physiological nuance that began to forcibly take native women to the big world and show them freak circuses for money. Perhaps the most notorious victim Saarti's Black Venus became European perverted aesthetics Bartman - a young woman who was exhibited in London for fun to the public because of her huge buttocks and pronounced genitals.

We are Hottentots



Due to their peace-loving nature, the people were unable to defend identity and gradually merged with other tribes, in particular with Damara and Herero, almost losing their amazing “bird” language and culture.



Kraal in Africa

The Hottentots maintained a communal system. They live in kraals – settlements of several huts, between which cattle area. Reducing an already not too long life Total alcoholism also contributes. Weakened by alcohol immunity drives people to the grave while still young.



Paleolithic Venus

Some researchers believe that it is the Khoi-coin are the progenitors of all other races. And the proof of this is repeated finds - the so-called Paleolithic Venus, age which are approximately 17 thousand years old. Carved from a variety of materials figurines were found not only in Africa, but also in the territory Europe.



Taking this into account, it can be argued that each of us has a tiny piece of koi coin. Whether this is good or bad is up to everyone to decide individual possessor of ancient human DNA.