General Knowledge

• Homo Luzonensis, believed to be an extinct species of primitive human in the genus Homo walked the island of Luzon some 50,000 years ago.
• 25,000 B.C. 


  Ancient Negroid people immigrated to the Philippines over a land bridge, still connecting the archipelago with the Asian mainland. They were food gatherers and hunters and the forefathers of today's Negritos. These people used bows, and arrows and stone-made implements. They lived in caves.
• 5,000 B.C. to 3,000 B.C.

  The "New Stone Age." Sea-faring Malays, from what is today Indonesia, came to the archipelago. These new settlers brought polished stone tools, boat building, bark, and animal skin cloth making, pottery, rice planting, and cooking food in bamboo tubes (the techniques of making fire by rubbing two sticks together). The Negritos began to move out of caves and settle in a scattered manner along the coasts and rivers.
• Barangay


  A term revived by Marcos to describe an organized neighborhood of more than 1000 people, originally referring to a ship load of people from the second wave of Malay immigrants
• 200 B.C

  More civilized Malays in large numbers migrated to the Philippines. They were the racial stock of the majority of today's Philippine populace.
• 200 B.C. to 1000 A.D.

  In the Iron Age, artistry began in the Philippines in all aspects of life and work. Earrings, beads, pendants, and bangles made of clay, stone, and shells were developed. Body tattooing was used as well as filing and blackening of teeth which were then wrapped with gold foil or studded with gold fillings.