Andamanese people
![Two Great Andamanese men, circa. 1875](/Images/godic/202412/20/Great_Andamanese_-_two_men_-_18754729.jpg")
![Map of human haplotype migration based on mitochondrial DNA, with Key (coloured) indicating periods in numbered thousands of years before the present. Note the route of the mtDNA haplogroup M through the Indian mainland and the Andaman Islands, possibly on to Southeast Asia](/Images/godic/202412/20/Map-of-human-migrations4729.jpg")
![Great Andamese women, 1876](/Images/godic/202412/20/Great_Andamanese_women_-_18764729.jpg")
![Distribution of Andamanese tribes in the Andaman Islands — early 1800s versus present-day (2004)](/Images/godic/202412/20/Andamanese_comparative_distribution4729.png")
The Andamanese people are the various aboriginal inhabitants of the Andaman Islands, a Union Territory of India located in the southeastern part of the Bay of Bengal.
The Andamanese resemble other Negrito groups in Southeast Asia. They are pygmies, and are the only modern people outside of certain parts of Sub-Saharan Africa with steatopygia. They lead a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, and appear to have lived in substantial isolation for thousands of years. The Andamanese arrived at the Andaman Islands around the latest Glacial Maximum, ca. 26,000 years ago.