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This is how anthropologist Vincent Carelli viewed the Pit Man.
An unknown tribe member who spent the last 26 years alone in Brazil, who lived completely out of contact with the outside world, died.
Known as the “hole man,” the native tribesman dug burrows in the woods for both hunting and hiding.
The native man’s body was found on 23 August near his straw hut.
This person, who is thought to be in his 60s, is thought to have died of natural causes. No signs of violence were found on his body, either.
The pit man was the last member of an indigenous group living in the Tanaru region in the Brazilian state of Rondonia on the border with Bolivia.
Most of his tribe is believed to have been killed by farmers who wanted to expand their fields in the 1970s.
In 1995, all six members of the tribe were killed by an attack by illegal miners, and the pit man began to live as the only member of his tribe.
His body was found by the foundation’s employee, Altair Jose Algayer, during a routine patrol of Funai. The body was reportedly covered with feathers.
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The native man was photographed by Funai, the Brazilian government’s indigenous people’s foundation.
Indigenous tribal expert Marcelo dos Santos told local media that the feathers on the body may have been put on by the native man himself. Accordingly, the pit man, realizing that he was about to die, prepared. Whether he has come into contact with a disease will be determined by autopsy.
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Funai has come across dozens of huts that the native man has built so far.
Little was known about the pit man, although many studies, articles, and even a book called “The Last of the Tribe: The Legendary Adventure of Protecting the Lonely Man in the Amazon” were written by US journalist Montel Reel.
The pit man was in the “uncontacted” class, meaning no one from the outside world has spoken to him in his lifetime, presumably.
The name of his tribe and what language he used were also unknown.