Reading Winds, Waves Help Indian Islanders, says this article from the Guardian in the antropologi blog.
From the Guardian article,
Government officials and anthropologists believe that ancient knowledge of the movement of wind, sea and birds may have saved the five indigenous tribes on the Indian archipelago of Andaman and Nicobar islands from the tsunami that hit the Asian coastline Dec. 26.
`They can smell the wind. They can gauge the depth of the sea with the sound of their oars. They have a sixth sense which we don’t possess,” said Ashish Roy, a local environmentalist and lawyer.
It appears that many tribesman fled the shores well before the waves hit the coast, where they would typically be fishing at this time of year.
It is sad that we have left so much ancient knowledge behind us, moving ahead blindly in the name of ‘progress’…