The Peopling in the Philippines

• Negrillos - member of dark shinned people
• Indios - general term applied to native Austronesians as a legal classification
• Moros - native Muslim inhabitants of the Philippines
• Wilhelm Schmidt - first refered to the family of languages spoken
• Austronesian - beginning of a new era of research
• Henry Otley Beyer - his theory become known as the wave migration theory
• William Meacham's Theory - Defends that the homeland speakers lies within the wide triangle called Austronesia.
• Wave Migration Theory - humans arrived in the Philippines in migratory waves
• Gaillard and Mallari(2004) - summarizes the different schools ought to explain the peopling of the Philippines
• Robert Heine - Geldern's Theory - one of the first to propose a scheme for Austronesian speaker movements from South China.
• Arsenio Manuel - defends a multiple route hypothesis