They learned to build such tall buildings.
Despite the widespread use of achievements of science and technology, in the South-Eastern part of the Indonesian province of Papua has lost a small section of the area where progress has not yet reached. Reminds area of the stone age, whose population adheres to the primitive way of life. Local korowai tribe for a long time remained isolated from the outside world, and until 1970 it was not even suspected, that apart from him there are other peoples.
The tribe has about 3,000 people. The main feature of the korowai people are their homes. Long before architects learned how to build high-rise buildings and skyscrapers, the tribe, who can neither read nor write, mastered all the subtleties of the construction of high-rise engineering structures.
They place their homes on the trees, at a height of 50 meters from the ground. All they need to do is simple, almost prehistoric tools and acquired in childhood skills of climbing trees.
The floor of the house is laid with trunks of palm trees. The walls and roof built of palm leaves. In order to get into the dwelling korowai people use a creeper, a makeshift ladder or a long pole with notches when the house is not at the level of the crown, and at an altitude of 8 – 10 meters. If the house will not suffer from an accidental fire, it operated an average of about 5 years.
This architecture for the residents of the korowai tribe no more than a way to protect themselves from flood, insects and predators living at the bottom. In addition, locals believe that the higher the house is, so it is inaccessible to evil spirits. In the houses live families, the number of members which can be up to 12 people. Often together with him to the top of the loaves raise and all Pets.
As primitive people, they get food by hunting and gathering. A staple in the diet of the population is the sago tree. In the food they consume and its fruits and wood, making of it a kind of flour. Source of protein are insects and wild animals, produced with the help of primitive weapons in the form of copies with a stone tip or bows.
Discovering the civilized world, as more and more members of the tribe moving into the city. According to ethnographers, after one or two generations the korowai people can disappear, becoming only a legend.
