A remote and uncontacted village
The Yanomami people are hunter-gatherers. They livein small, remote villages deep in the Amazonianrainforest. Westerners first encountered Yanomamipeople in the 1960s.
In 2008 researchers arrived in one of their villages.People living there -- all 54 of them -- said they had never seen Westerners before.
The Yanomami peopleand their chief permitted researchers to collect samplesfrom their body.