Vedda

Asiahunter-gatherers
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The Vedda are a small group of indigenous people living in the center of Sri Lanka, an island off the southern tip of India. Traditional Vedda life was based on nomadic hunting and gathering at the margins of an area inhabited by the Sinhalese and the Tamils, the two largest ethnic groups in Sri Lanka. Beginning from the 1910s, however, many Vedda families adopted paddy cultivation and settled in permanent villages.

Identifier
Region
  • Asia
Subregion
  • South Asia
Subsistence Type
  • hunter-gatherers
Samples
Countries
  • Sri Lanka
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