Ancient 'Lost' Tribe On Mysterious Island Try To Kill All Visitors

It sounds like the sort of mythical place Indiana Jones might visit  - a society which has lived on the same island for 60,000 years, uncontacted by modern man.

What the ‘lost tribe’ on the island think of outsiders can be gauged by the welcome that they reserve for guests from the modern age.

When a helicopter swooped low across North Sentinel island in the wake of the 2004 tsunami, an islander ran out on the beach, aiming an arrow at the pilot.

It was a gesture, charity Survival International says, which said one thing, ‘We don’t want you here.'

The Sentinelese islanders are thought to be directly descended from the first human populations to emerge from Africa, and have lived there for 60,000 years.

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Their language is so different from those used on nearby islands that it’s thought they have had no contact with other humans for thousands of years.

The Islands - located in the Bay of Bengal - are protected by law, although Survival International warn that some nearby fisherman have recently walked on the island.

It could be a fatal mistake.

Survival International says that while many refer to the islanders as Stone Age, they in fact make metal weaponry from the wreckage of crashed ships.

Survival International claims that the islanders are in good health - and that it would damage them if outsiders were to make contact.

The charity says, ‘The islanders are clearly extremely healthy, alert and thriving, in marked contrast to the two Andaman tribes who have ‘benefited’ from Western civilization, the Onge and the Great Andamanese, whose numbers have crashed and who are now largely dependent on state handouts just to survive.’