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    The Tasaday are a cave-dwelling tribe located in an isolated rainforest in South Cotabato, Mindanao who were believed to be living in the Stone Age until their discovery in the 1970s. They were first exposed to the media and outsiders, showing how their tribe developed after exposure and reactions to newcomers, though some later claimed it was a hoax. The Tasaday lived without clothes in caves and survived off the land, considered a rare example of a Stone Age culture. While some questioned the authenticity of the Tasaday, the documentary filmmaker who visited them found evidence of their rich traditional culture. Their discovery showed an unique pre-modern culture in the Philippines that deserved protection.

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    The Tasaday are a cave-dwelling tribe located in an isolated rainforest in South Cotabato, Mindanao who were believed to be living in the Stone Age until their discovery in the 1970s. They were first exposed to the media and outsiders, showing how their tribe developed after exposure and reactions to newcomers, though some later claimed it was a hoax. The Tasaday lived without clothes in caves and survived off the land, considered a rare example of a Stone Age culture. While some questioned the authenticity of the Tasaday, the documentary filmmaker who visited them found evidence of their rich traditional culture. Their discovery showed an unique pre-modern culture in the Philippines that deserved protection.

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    The Tasaday are a cave-dwelling tribe located in an isolated rainforest in South Cotabato, Mindanao who were believed to be living in the Stone Age until their discovery in the 1970s. They were first exposed to the media and outsiders, showing how their tribe developed after exposure and reactions to newcomers, though some later claimed it was a hoax. The Tasaday lived without clothes in caves and survived off the land, considered a rare example of a Stone Age culture. While some questioned the authenticity of the Tasaday, the documentary filmmaker who visited them found evidence of their rich traditional culture. Their discovery showed an unique pre-modern culture in the Philippines that deserved protection.

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    Manuyag, Marinel D.

    BSN 2A

    TASADAY

    The Tasaday are a cave-dwelling tribe who are located in an isolated section of the rainforest in
    South Cotabato, Mindanao. First discovered by the media and shows us the development of the tribe
    after the exposure, as well as their reactions towards them, claimed as a hoax. We can consider
    Tasadays as a stone-aged era for Filipino indigenous groups because of their life they lived in a cave
    where they can live and find their food within their environment. In those years they do not wear
    clothes they just have a leaf to cover parts of their body without no shame on each other. Their life is
    easy and with no problems. As we consider these stones aged according to the article “The Tasaday
    Controversy: Assessing the Evidence” by Walker, Anthony "First Glimpse of a Stone Age Tribe", and
    followed this, a few months later, with an article by its senior assistant editor (illustrated with 22
    stunning photographs) entitled "Stone Age Cavemen of Mindanao"; the same year (1972) the
    organization also released a documentary film on the Tasaday. These troglodytes, so it was reported,
    knew nothing of agriculture, subsisted entirely on wild foods, and wore leaves for clothing. John Nance,
    then Manila bureau chief for the Associated Press, followed up on the media hype with a best-selling
    book The Gentle Tasaday: A Stone Age People in the Philippine Rain Forest, for which aviator Charles
    Lindbergh wrote a Foreword.

    It was believed that there were always stone aging tribes during President Ferdinand Marcos'
    administration and that they were found in the cavities of Mindanao, the tribe of the Tasaday. Kara
    David was able to visit them in South Cotabato in this documentary and discovered the rich tradition of
    the Tasaday tribe. Tasaday perspective, a "great man," who reminded me that the evolution of culture
    has probably always been influenced by the actions of such individuals. Hoped-for further studies were
    never published or carried out. With the end of the Marcos era, I saw both the Tasaday and their
    anthropological visitors accused of performing a hoax on the world, accused in numerous publications
    by journalist debunkers, whose many nearly unreadable pages I have waded through trying to find a
    clear, convincing reason for such a deception. What I have learned is that there are people who can
    appreciate and there are people who can’t. the discovery of these people was one of a kind, they were
    part of the Philippines history full of unique culture and rare style of living. They should be protected
    and loved at all costs. I learned as well that media can affect people and their culture.

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