Stone Age People of the Philippines

[MikeLigalig.com]

by Science News, 1989

Tasaday controversy grows more curious

The strange case of the Tasaday -- modern-day hunter-gatherers in the Philippines, heralded during the 1970s as an isolated Stone Age group and lately denounced as a hoax by some journalists and anthropologist--grows stranger still with new evidence presented last week at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C.

The new research focuses on the family trees and language characteristics of the Tasaday and supports the notion that they are a people distinct from other rain-forest communities living near them (SN: 5/6/89, p. 280).