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Tasaday - Some early history | | Tasaday - Some early history: Encyclopedia II - Tasaday - Some early history | | Tasaday oral history speaks of "fugu", a horribly evil force that devastated the community, killing everyone except the Tasaday's ancestors who fled southward, deep into the forbidding mountain forest (even currently, most Mindanao tribespeople avoid the deep forest due to beliefs such as "tau maloy" or ghost people who are said to inhabit there). Believing they were the only survivors, the Tasaday settled in the area of their cave dwellings ...
See also:Tasaday, Tasaday - Some early history, Tasaday - First reported contacts, Tasaday - Manuel Elizalde Jr.'s continued relationship with the Tasaday, Tasaday - Press hoax claims and debunking the hoax, Tasaday - The Tasaday of the 1970s, Tasaday - Food and drugs, Tasaday - Tools and ornamentals, Tasaday - The Tasaday today, Tasaday - The Tasaday's fight to preserve their homeland | | | Tasaday, Tasaday - First reported contacts, Tasaday - Food and drugs, Tasaday - Manuel Elizalde Jr.'s continued relationship with the Tasaday, Tasaday - Press hoax claims and debunking the hoax, Tasaday - Some early history, Tasaday - The Tasaday of the 1970s, Tasaday - The Tasaday today, Tasaday - The Tasaday's fight to preserve their homeland, Tasaday - Tools and ornamentals | | |
| | | Tasaday: Encyclopedia II - Tasaday - Some early history
Tasaday - Some early history
Tasaday oral history speaks of "fugu", a horribly evil force that devastated the community, killing everyone except the Tasaday's ancestors who fled southward, deep into the forbidding mountain forest (even currently, most Mindanao tribespeople avoid the deep forest due to beliefs such as "tau maloy" or ghost people who are said to inhabit there). Believing they were the only survivors, the Tasaday settled in the area of their cave dwellings where researchers eventually saw them in 1972.
Linguistics scholars believe the Tasaday separated from a community of Cotabato Manobo, who speak the recorded dialect closest to the Tasaday's, perhaps in the late 18th century. They were then living some 40 miles north of their present-day cave site and are thought to have fled when an epidemic disease (perhaps smallpox, cholera, or one of the European-spawned ailments that decimated tribal peoples the world over during/following the Age of Discovery) swept the area.
The Cotabato Manobo are not believed to have been a sophisticated culture, but did have some agriculture. This suggests the Tasaday at the mid-20th century may not have always lived in "the style of the Stone Age" as was suggested by enthusiastic reporting in the 1970s, though according to ethnobotanist D. E. Yen, linguist Lawrence Reid and the Tasaday themselves, the Tasaday were indeed living without agriculture when they were "discovered" in the 20th century. In fact, according to Reid, in 1972 the Tasaday did not have words for cultivated plants or food (acquired either by growing or trade), a house, parts of a house, construction of a house or places or people outside the forest.
Though the term "Stone Age group" was not an apt descriptor of the Tasaday at the time they met Dafal, describing the Tasaday's lifestyle as "Stone Age" (see also Paleolithic) is better, but perhaps scholar D. E. Yen put it best: "...the Tasaday lived as close to nature as any people known in modern times--in a state of virtual symbiosis between the plants, the people, and the terrestrial animals."
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