The Hadza people are an ethnic group that lives around Lake Eyasi in the Great Rift Valley and near the Serengeti Plain in Tanzania, in an area proper

The legends of the Hadza people are so old that they could refer to extinct hominid ancestors

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The Hadza people are an ethnic group that lives around Lake Eyasi in the Great Rift Valley and near the Serengeti Plain in Tanzania, in an area properly called Hadzaland.

In 2015 there were between 1,200 and 1,300 individuals, a small group of which, barely 300, still survived dedicated to hunting and gathering exclusively. This small town, which has been extensively studied by anthropologists in recent decades, has some characteristics that make it certainly peculiar and unique within the African continent.

They are not related to any other people. Genetic tests show that even the Sandawe people, who live just 150 kilometers away, split from the Hadza more than 15,000 years ago. These same tests reveal that, in recent centuries, there has been significant mixing with the Bantu.

They are considered descendants of the aboriginal hunting and gathering population of the area they inhabit, territory they would have occupied for thousands of years (they are not known to have come from anywhere else, and their tradition does not mention any migration either).