The Tasaday story created an immediate sensation, first as an allegory representing our yearning for a more peaceful, simpler time and then as a symbol of our own gullibility. In 1971, as a terrible ...

If you’re of a certain age, you probably have some vague memory of the Tasaday. A small band of isolated hunter-gatherers, they were “discovered” in June 1971 in the remote rain forest of Mindanao, in ...

In 1971, an official in the Marcos Government discovered a so-called "Stone Age" people untouched by modernity living in the southernmost island of the Philippines. The discovery drew worldwide ...

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Thirty-six years ago this month one of the most intriguing stories of the previous century came to light when a "Stone Age" tribe was reported as having been discovered in a remote rain forest on the ...

Known as the Tasaday and numbering just 27, the group of six families lived in caves, used stone tools and wore clothes fashioned from orchid leaves. A 32-page cover story by National Geographic ...

Of all the lies Ferdinand Marcos propagated, the most interesting one has got to be his Tasaday hoax. I say “interesting” because it is unlike most martial law stories of unconscionable torture and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The Tasaday are the isolated. peaceable Stone Age tribe lated, peaceable Stone Age tribe discovered in a Philippine forest in 1970. Mr. Nance, a journalist working in Manila, was able to follow the ...

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Take a look back at history through the front pages of The Cincinnati Enquirer. Every day we look at 10 pages that show the local, national and international headlines. Today’s pages cover news ...