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塔萨代族（The Tasaday Tribe）

1971年，一位菲律宾政府官员马纽尔·伊里杂德（Manuel Elizalde）发现了一个石器时代与世隔绝居住于棉兰老岛的小部落。此部落叫塔萨代，说先进语言，用石头器具，并显示出其他石器时代的特征。他们的发现马上成为电视的头条新闻、国家地理杂志的封面、以及一本畅销书的主角。当人类学家们试图对这一部落做进一步研究时，总统马科斯（Marcos）宣布保留这片土地并禁止任何人进入。

当马科斯1986年卸任后，两名记者走访了该地，并发现塔萨代人其实住在房子里，与当地农民做贸易，穿牛仔裤和T恤衫，并操一口现代的当地方言。塔萨代人解释说，他们是受伊里杂德的压迫才住进山洞并表现出石器时代的样子的。伊里杂德1983年逃离出国，并偷了保护塔萨代人基金组织的上百万美元。

In 1971, a Philippine government minister (Manuel Elizalde) discovered a small stone age tribe living in isolation on the island of Mindanao. This tribe, called the Tasaday, spoke a strong language, used stone tools, and exhibited other stone-age attributes. Their discovery made television headlines, the cover of National Geographic, and was the subject of a bestselling book. When anthropologists tried to get a better look at the tribe, President Marcos declared the land a reserve and made it off-limits to all visitors.

When Marcos was deposed in 1986, two journalists visited the site and found that the Tasaday in fact lived in houses, traded with the local farmers, wore jeans and t-shirts and spoke a modern local dialect. The Tasadays explained that they had moved in the caves and behaved in a stone-age manner because of pressure from Elizalde. Elizalde had fled the country in 1983 with millions of dollars he had stolen from a foundation set up to protect the Tasaday people.