7 Most Isolated Humans On The Planet

4. The Korowai Tribe

The Korowai, live in southeastern West Papua and the majority of them live in some frankly awesome treehouses. It's possible that they were unaware of any humans besides themselves before contact was made in 1970.

Many attempts to assimilate the Korowai have failed and the extremely dense rainforest in which they live serves to keep them mostly isolated from both surrounding tribes and the wider global community.

The Korowai do come into occasional contact with tourists and wide-eyed anthropologists and some reports have surfaced of their practice of cannibalism. There is, however, some reason to suspect that some of the Korowai and similar neighbour tribes are actually trolling us for a bit of a laugh, and that cannibalisms is no longer widely practiced in the community, if at all.