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Stone Age Tasadays of Mindanao Have Remarkable Teeth
In Mindanao Philippines a tiny Tasaday group of 24 to 26 people lives as forest food gatherers with primitive stone tools and no agriculture. They reportedly show no cavities yet their isolation began around 2,000 years ago. Anthropologists suggest language evolution pins a 2,000 year separation, while officials weigh safeguarding the area as a possible national park to minimize contact and damage.
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MT. Tasaday
Phillippines
UPI
Philippines
Mindanao
Luzon Island
Frank Lynch
Ateneo University
Manila
Norman Winters
Phillippine National Museum
Robert B. Fox
Manuel Elizalde Jr
Elizalde