A- A A+  Article from:  Creation  Volume 30Issue 3 Cover
Creation 30(3):34–37 June 2008  Free Email News One Human
Family: The Bible, science, race and culture by Dr Carl Wieland
US $15.00 View Item  The people that forgot time (and much else,
too)   Photo by Bunyuen Suksaneh   Isolated hunter-gatherer
tribes are often viewed in the West as being primitive (pre-
agriculture), not-yet-fully-evolved relics of the Stone Age.1,2
Such people are frequently dubbed ‘The People That Time
Forgot’—a concept widely recognized, even by those unfamiliar
with Edgar Rice Burrough’s classic 1924 novel (or the 1977
Hollywood movie).3  However, faced with intriguing new evidence,
anthropologists are having to completely rethink the ‘Primitive
Worlds: People Lost in Time’4 stereotype.  The Mlabri—‘People of
the Yellow Leaves’  Ranging through mountain forests across
parts of northern Thailand and western Laos, the Mlabri people
were first ‘discovered’ by Europeans in 1936. They had no
agriculture, instead they hunted and forag