Part 1

• The early Filipinos are believers of superstition and assuch, they practiced animism
• Animism is the belief that various objects, places, and creatures possess distinctive spiritual qualities
• Said spirits are called diwata
• we know that Baybayin was the early Filipino script that they used
• Barangays are a number of geographically scattered, selfsufficient, autonomous communities present all over thearchipelago long before the Spaniards came
• For about 40,000 years, they made simple tools or weapons of stone flakes but eventually developed techniques for sawing, drilling and polishing hard stones
• These Stone Age inhabitants subsequently formed settlements in the major Philippine islands such as Sulu, Mindanao (Zamboanga, and Davao), Negros, Samar, and Luzon (Batangas, Laguna, Rizal, Bulacan and the Cagayan region).
• By about 3,000 B.C., they were producing adzes ornaments of seashells and pottery of various designs.
• Gradually, the early Filipinos learned to make metal tools and implements --

  1. copper
  2. gold
  3. bronze
  4. iron
• Excavations of Philippine gravesand work sites have yielded iron slags.
• iron age

  These suggest that Filipinos during this period engaged in the actual extraction of iron from ore, smelting and refining
• the early Spanish chroniclers took note of the refined warship called caracoa.
• When it comes to agriculture, the early Filipinos were able to grow crops such as

  1. rice
  2. cotton
  3. other vegetables.
• They were also able to domesticate

  1. swine
  2. goats
  3. fowls.
• There were two groups of Filipinos based on their settlements:

  1. coastal areas
  2. mountain settlements
• Settlements along the coastal areas which had been exposed to foreign trade and cultural contacts, such as Manila, Mindoro, Cebu, Southern Mindanao and Sulu, seemed to have attained a more sophisticated technology (engaging in agriculture, developed a system of writing, weights and measures; wore colorful clothes and made their own gold jewelry, houses made of wood or bamboo).
• in the interior and mountain settlements, many Filipinos were still living as hunters. They gathered forest products to trade with the lowland and coastal settlement
• Filipinos were also mining gold in such places as

  1. Panay
  2. Mindoro
  3. Bicol
• The beeswax is the material the bees used to construct the walls of their hives, and this material was historically used in creating statues, bronze preservation, and even treating burns and wounds
• Filipinos were also mining gold in such places as Panay, Mindoro and Bicol.
• Tools were found in the house of Raja Soliman in Manila that proved the sophistication of the Filipinos living in the now Metro Manila.
• Some tools found in the house Raja Soliman in Manila:

  1. copper
  2. porcelain jars
  3. iron
  4. handwoven blankets
• copper (for table display)
• porcelain jars (for storage of food and other materials)
• iron (used in warfare called Lantaka)
• PRE-COLONIAL PERIOD

  1. Culture and Tradition
  2. Writing System
  3. Social Organization
  4. Craftsmanship
  5. Transportation
  6. Agriculture
  7. Settlement
  8. Tools and Products
• Culture and Traditions

  1. Animism
  2. Diwata
• Writing System

  1. Baybayin
• Social Organization

  1. Barangay
• Craftsmanship

  1. tools or weapons of stone flakes
  2. adzes ornaments of seashells and pottery of various designs
  3. copper, gold, bronze, and iron tools
  4. iron slags
  5. extraction of iron from ore, smelting and refining
• Transportation

  1. caracoa
• Agriculture

  1. grow crops such as rice cotton and other vegetables
  2. domesticate swine, goats, and fowls
• These Stone Age inhabitants subsequently formed settlements in the major Philippine islands such as

  1. Sulu
  2. Mindanao (Zamboanga, and Davao)
  3. Negros
  4. Samar
  5. Luzon (Batangas, Laguna, Rizal, Bulacan and the Cagayan region)
• The Iron Age is considered to have lasted from the second or third century B.C. to the tenth century A.D in our country
• By the tenth century A.D., the inhabitants of Butuan were trading with Champa (Vietnam); those of Ma-i (Mindoro) with China.
• Tools and Products

  1. raising swine, goats and fowls
  2. making wine, vinegar and salt
  3. producing beeswax and honey
  4. growing rice, vegetables and cotton