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- Description: A group of people from the ethnic Veddas community showing the hunting dance, in Dambana, Mahiyangana, Sri Lanka. August 10, 2008. Sri Lanka's ethnic Veddas or Wanniya-laeto, the forest dwellers preserve a direct line of descent from the island's original Neolithic community dating from at least 16,000 BC and probably far earlier according to current scientific opinion. Even today, the Wanniya-laeto community retains much of its own distinctive prehistoric cultural memory, and time-tested knowledge of their forest habitat that has enabled their ancestor-revering culture to meet the diverse challenges to their collective identity and survival. With the impending extinction of Wanniya-laeto culture, however, Sri Lanka and the world stand to lose a rich body of indigenous lore and living ecological wisdom. In Dambana of Mahiyangana, a very small group from the community, act as a troop and show visitors how they used to live in the past.
- Credits: Shehab (Australia) Uddin/Majority World
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- Description: A group of people from the ethnic Veddas community showing the hunting dance, in Dambana, Mahiyangana, Sri Lanka. August 10, 2008. Sri Lanka's ethnic Veddas or Wanniya-laeto, the forest dwellers preserve a direct line of descent from the island's original Neolithic community dating from at least 16,000 BC and probably far earlier according to current scientific opinion. Even today, the Wanniya-laeto community retains much of its own distinctive prehistoric cultural memory, and time-tested knowledge of their forest habitat that has enabled their ancestor-revering culture to meet the diverse challenges to their collective identity and survival. With the impending extinction of Wanniya-laeto culture, however, Sri Lanka and the world stand to lose a rich body of indigenous lore and living ecological wisdom. In Dambana of Mahiyangana, a very small group from the community, act as a troop and show visitors how they used to live in the past.
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- Image Description: A group of people from the ethnic Veddas community showing the hunting dance, in Dambana, Mahiyangana, Sri Lanka. August 10, 2008. Sri Lanka's ethnic Veddas or “Wanniya-laeto”, the forest dwellers preserve a direct line of descent from the island's origin
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