Members of the Tasaday tribe (Philippines), showing off food gathered from the forest. The Tasaday people were at the center of a controversy over their origins. Some believed them to be a group isolated since the stone-age, while others believed them to be local farmers participating in a hoax. Most likely, they are a group of people living off the land, who were not as isolated as first believed, and whose "stone age" qualities were played up by the Filipino government for selfish reasons.