Explore the Hadzabe Culture

In northern Tanzania, the Hadza (Hadzabe) are a modern hunter-gatherer people. With around 1,300 inhabitants, they are considered one of Africa's last hunter-gatherer tribes. The Eyasi Valley and surrounding mountains are their native land. Anthropologists continue studying the Hadza as they provide a modern link to modes of human existence and survival that were largely abandoned by the majority of human beings. The Hadza or Hadzabe do not have domesticated animals and do not grow or preserve their own food because they are a hunter-gatherer society. The Hadza survive by foraging for edible plants and hunting with hand-made bows and arrows. The Hadza diet consists mostly of plants, but it also includes meat, fat, and honey. They make temporary shelters out of dried grass and branches, and they have little belongings.