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• Pangaea


  Supercontinent which incorporates majority of the landmasses of the planet
• Paleolithic Period


  • Evidence for the presence of Man in the form of two flake stone tools
  • Land bridges to mainland Asia
  • Flake tools, elephas fossils
  • Agusan Valley fossils
  • Rizal Quezon City and Pangasinan fossils
• Tabon Cave


  • Evidences of the last ice age period homo sapiens unearthed
  • Human post-cranial bones
• Tabon Cave Remains


  • Tabon Tibia
  • Tabon Skullcap
• Prehistoric Fossils


  • Philippine Rhinoceros Fossil
• Early Holocene Tools


  • Tridacna Shell Tools
• Taiwan Origin


  • People of the Southeastern shores of the Asian continent moved outward to Taiwan
  • They then sailed to explore beyond Taiwan and sailed to the Philippines and the Pacific
  • They also brought with them their wetland agriculture practices as well as pottery and polished stone to create tools for farming and weaponry
• Austronesian Adzes


  • Ancient Paiwan Adze
  • Philippines Stone Adze
  • Hawaiian Adze
• Austronesians


  • Originated from the pre-Han dynasty of mainland China's coastal lands
  • Austronesian maritime migration reached the major cultural ethnolinguistic groups of Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, The Philippine Islands, Indonesia, Coast of New Guinea, Madagascar
• Austronesian Languages


  • Various Austronesian ethnolinguistic groups
• Austronesian Agriculture and Tools

  • Indonesia
  • Madagascar
  • Malaysia
  • Philippines
  • Easter Island perforated stones and Fishhooks
  • Polynesian Fishhooks (Hawaii)
  • Bulul of Ifugao and Benguet, Ph
• Ancient Paiwan Adze


  • Philippines Stone Adze
  • Hawaiian Adze
• Austronesians


  Originated from the pre-Han dynasty of mainland China's coastal lands where the descents migrated through seafaring
• Regions reached by Austronesian maritime migration

  • Polynesia
  • Micronesia
  • Melanesia
  • The Philippine Islands
  • Indonesia
  • Coast of New Guinea
  • Madagascar
• Austronesian Languages


  The Austronesian people are also referred to as the Austronesian-speaking people
• The Austronesian people are the indigenous people of the ethnogeographic group from the Pacific islands extending to the west of the Indian Ocean
• Agriculture


  • Indonesia
  • Madagascar
  • Malaysia
  • Philippines
• Easter Island perforated stones and Fishhooks

  • Polynesian Fishhooks (Hawaii)
• Statues & Sculptures


  • Maori Statues of Easter Island
  • Toraja, Southern Sulawesi
• Indigenous Tools


  • Viper Vessels of Paiwan
  • Earthenware vessel with two spouts and two lugs. Calatagan, Batangas
  • Bulul of Ifugao and Benguet, Phililppines
• Canoes


  • Phililppines
  • Oceania
  • Papua New Guinea
• Early Metal Age Culture. Bolobok Cave, Sanga-sanga, Tawi-tawi bronze celt, red glass bead, pottery


  3190 BCE
• Duyung Cave, Iwaig, Palawan. Flexed burial, tridacna adzes, shell lime container, shell disk ornament, habitation

  2680 BCE
• Dimolit, Isabela. House Floor. Small Jasper Blades, silica gloss

  2650-2710 BCE
• Manga Site, Andarayan, Cagayan. Rice husk embedded in pottery, polished adzes, spindle whorl. Earliest evidence for rice and weaving

  2610-2130 BCE
• Edjek, Negros. Pottery, fired clay lumps


  2305-1410 BCE
• Binangonan, Rizal. Angono Petroglyphs


  2000 BCE
• Arku Cave, Penablanca, Cagayan. Footed pottery, bones, shell beads, baked clay bead


  1660-890 BCE
• Banaue, Ifugao. Dates occupation in a house platform presumably. Terracing probably present/root cropping


  1545-825 BCE
• Manunggul Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan. Elaborate pottery, jade beads, Burial Jar

  1330 BCE
• Manunggul Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan. Late Neolithic burial, elaborate pottery, jade beads. Manunggul Jar

  895-775 BCE
• Duyung Cave, Iwaig, Palawan. Jar burial, stone adzes, bronze and iron tools, jade ornaments. Uyaw Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan. Jar burial, bronze adze and spear, stone adze, jade ornaments, glass beads and bracelets

  500-300 BCE
• Guri Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan. Jar burial, bronze, glass and gold beads, jade ear pendants

  300-100 BCE
• V.Pagayona Sr. Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan. Burial jars with trunconical covers. Iron, copper, bronze, glass beads

  200 BCE
• Manunggul Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan. Jar burial, iron, glass and stone, glass bracelets. Earliest date for iron. Developed Metal Age Culture

  190 BCE
• Maitum Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan. Anthropomorphic burial jars, glass beads, bracelets. Kalanay-type pottery

  5 BCE-370 CE
• Fishing Implements


  • Tools carved from deer antlers. Santa Ana, Manila
• Bone Arrowhead


  • Lal-lo, Cagayan
• Metal Arrowhead


  • Arrowhead found associated with shell midden. San Remigio, Cagayan
  • Restored blue glass bracelet. Gubat, Sorsogon
• Clay Ling-ling-o


  • Plain earthenware ling-ling-o earrings. Itbayat, Batanes