The Lost Tribe Hoax

Witness History: Archive 2012 - A podcast by BBC World Service

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.