Comparing Primary and Secondary Sources

• Santiago Alvarez

  • A revolutionary general and a founder and honorary president of the first directorate of the Nacionalista Party
  • Also known as Kidlat ng Apoy because of his inflamed bravery and dedication as commander of Cavite's famous battles
  • The only child of revolutionary general Mariano Alvarez
• Teodoro Agoncillo

  • A prominent 20th-century Filipino historian
  • He and his contemporary Renato Constantino were among the first Filipino historians renowned for promoting a distinctly nationalist point of view of Filipino history.
• Robert Fox

  • An anthropologist and leading historian on the prehispanic Philippines
  • He led a six-year archaeological research project in Palawan, focusing mainly on the caves and rock shelters of Lipuun Point in the southern part of the island. Its most outstanding site is the Tabon Cave complex, the large main cave that delivered the only Pleistocene human fossils found in the Philippines to date. The fossil finds include a skullcap, jaw bones, teeth and several other fragmented bones. Dubbed as the "Tabon Man",  the finds represent more than just one individual.
• William Henry Scott

  • A historian of the Gran Cordillera Central and Pre Hispanic Philippines 
  • During his lifetime, Scott dedicated himself to studying Philippine Pre-Colonial and Central Cordillera history. He graduated with a BA in Chinese language and literature at Yale University in 1951, an MA in church history at Columbia University in 1958 and a PhD in history at the University of Santo Tomas in 1968, in which he focused on precolonial history, examining the Maragtas and the Code of Kalantiaw. 
• • The excerpt within this module is part of William Henry Scott’s analytical report on the subject of the Tabon Man which was published in 1968.