Having lived in complete isolation for 26 years, the man - whose real name was never known to the outside world - was found in a hammock in a hut in the Tanaru Indigenous territory.
Since losing everyone he knew, the man had refused all contact with the outside world and supported himself by hunting and raising crops.The last of his people, a Brazilian Indigenous man known only as "the man of the hole" has been found dead, decades after the rest of his uncontacted tribe were killed off by ranchers and illegal miners, officials said.
Local media reported that the man's body had been covered in macaw feathers, prompting one expert to speculate that he had known he was about to die.Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has surged to a 12-year high under Jair Bolsonaro "It really was genocide: the deliberate elimination of an entire people by ranchers hungry for land and wealth," she added.
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