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  • proper noun An ethnic group of hunter-gatherers in central Tanzania.
  • proper noun A language isolate spoken by the Hadza people.

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Examples

  • It is ironic that government officials would be calling the Hadza “backwards”.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Christopher O'Brien 2007

  • It is ironic that government officials would be calling the Hadza “backwards”.

    Hadza Tribal Lands Being Confiscated By Arab Royal Family Christopher O'Brien 2007

  • The fifteen societies varied in their degree of adherence to a world religion (the Hadza from Tanzania were 0% on this while the Tsimane of Boliva were 100%) and in their degree of market integration (a sample from Missouri was 100% on this while the Yasawa from Fiji Island were only 21% -- market integration meaning the percentage of household calories purchased from the marketplace as opposed to procured by the household itself).

    Matt J. Rossano: God and The Marketplace Matt J. Rossano 2011

  • Alternatively, others, like the Tanzanian Hadza tribe, beautify their lashes by trimming them off.

    Paul Venoit: Lashes -- Going to Extremes Paul Venoit 2011

  • The fifteen societies varied in their degree of adherence to a world religion (the Hadza from Tanzania were 0% on this while the Tsimane of Boliva were 100%) and in their degree of market integration (a sample from Missouri was 100% on this while the Yasawa from Fiji Island were only 21% -- market integration meaning the percentage of household calories purchased from the marketplace as opposed to procured by the household itself).

    Matt J. Rossano: God and The Marketplace Matt J. Rossano 2011

  • Kristen Hawkes of the University of Utah, after studying the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania, has proposed that grandmothers must have played an important role in the ascent of Homo sapiens.

    Grandparents were key to prehistoric man's survival 2011

  • Alternatively, others, like the Tanzanian Hadza tribe, beautify their lashes by trimming them off.

    Paul Venoit: Lashes -- Going to Extremes Paul Venoit 2011

  • After studying the Hadza tribe of Tanzania, anthropologists proposed that grandparents' roles were key.

    Grandparents were key to prehistoric man's survival 2011

  • Stanford researchers collected saliva specimens from 95 members of the Hadza and Sandawe tribes of Tanzania and the Khomani Bushmen of southern Africa.

    Modern Humans Traced to Southern African Bushmen 2011

  • "Good foraging grannies mean healthy Hadza kids – and that was also true for our ancestors," she said.

    Grandparents were key to prehistoric man's survival 2011

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