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Footsteps of My Ancestors Photo Gallery
Photographs by Steve McCurry Compiled by Heather Morgan Shott
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After a DNA analysis reveals his ancestors' migration route, American traveler Donovan Webster goes on a quest to meet his relatives in Africa, Uzbekistan, and beyond. Famed photographer Steve McCurry captures it all. Here we showcase portraits of the people they encounter.Webster first traveled to a Rift Valley camp in Tanzania, where he met the Hadzabe Bushmen, one of the world's most ancient groups of hunter-gatherers (above, left). They are among the closest living links to our earliest human ancestors. "Among them, I felt a peaceable happiness," he says.
Two women rest beside a baobab tree, a source of fruit and honey for the tribe (above, right). "As I lived, hunted, and gathered with the Hadzabe, I was shocked by how much food existed across the landscape," says Webster. "There were fruits and berries, honey to be gathered from inside hollow baobab trees, and clutches of enormous tubers to be dug from the ground."
Related Resource:The Genographic Project, a partnership of National Geographic and IBM, with support from the Waitt Family Foundation.
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