Philhis

Peopling of the Philippines

• Up to early 1970’s, it had been assumed that the Philippines was part of the mainland China.

• About 156 ft. below the present levels, the Philippine rose during the Pleistocene or Ice Age. (according to a theory)

• According to Dr. Fritjof Voss, a German scientist studied the geology of the Philippines, that it was never a part of the Asian mainland when scientific studies in 1964-1967 on the thickness of the earth’s crust, it was found out that the 35km thick crust underneath China does not extend to the Philippines.

• The Philippine lies “along the great earth faults extending to deep undersea trenches”.

• Whatever the cause of the Philippines coming to the surface of the sea, it is certain that ancient man came to settle in it.

• Negritos- the aborigines of the Philippines are now severely criticized in anthropologically literate quarters is a widely accepted theory.

• Filipino anthropologist, F. Landa Jocano of University of the Philippines disputes Professor H. Otley Beyer’s assumption that Malays migrated in the Philippines constituting the largest portion of the population.

• Jocano believs that the fossils of ancient men were not only came from the Philippines but to New Guinea, Java, Borneo and Australia, and that there is no way of telling whether or not they were Negritos.

• Being Negrito as the first settlers is not a big deal, what concerns us is the proof that 21,000 – 22,000 years ago, there’s a men in the Philippines.

• According to old heory, Filipinos came from Malay but when the discovery in a Tabon Cave in Palawan in 1962 of a skull cap and a portion of jaw shows that man come earlier to the Philippines.

• The differences, according to Jocano, are due to the differences in their responses to their environment.

Summarizing his findings, Jocano maintains that…

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