This group was claimed to have been a culture that had lived in isolation since the Stone Age. The tribe made headlines in the 1970s when they were allegedly discovered by Manuel Elizalde, Jr. A proper investigation of the tribe revealed that the Tasaday were no such thing; they wore jeans and T-shirts and spoke a modern local dialect. All the purported evidence—pictures and film of the tribe acting like Stone Age people—was staged, and tribe members had been coaxed into the phony performance with offers of free cigarettes and clothing.
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