The Lost Tribe Hoax

Published: Nov. 15, 2012, 9:30 a.m.

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In the 1970s the Filipino government annouced they had discovered a group of cave dwellers who were still living as people did in the stone age. But the tribe turned out to be a hoax that fooled the scientific community.

Photo: Members of the Tasaday tribe photographed by Oswald Iten in the 1980s after they admitted the hoax.

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