Scientific explanation

about filipinos
KYNA B. DAVID

Scientific explanation about

filipinos
The current demarcation line between this period
and the early history of the Philippines is 900 CE,
which is the date of the first surviving written
record to come from the Philippines, the Laguna
Copperplate Inscription. This period saw the
immense change that took hold of the archipelago
from Stone Age culturens in the 4th century CE,
continuing on with the gradual widening of trade
until 900 CE and the first surviving written
records.

Callao Man (c. 41000 BCE)

Callao man refers to fossilized remains
discovered in Callao Cave, Peablanca,
Cagayan, Philippines in 2007 by Armand
Salvador Mijares.

Callao Man (c. 41000 BCE)

As of July 2010, the biological classification of Callao
Man is uncertain. The metatarsal bone discovered
(Right MT3 the small bone from the end of the
middle toe of the right foot) has been identified as
coming from a species of genus Homo, but the exact
species classification is uncertain.
It has been speculated that Callao Man may be Homo
sapiens or Homo floresiensis, though the latter is
sometimes considered a pathological specimen of the
former. Distinguishing between the two species would
require material from the skull or mandible. As of 2012,
the team that discovered the bone were seeking
permission to search for more bones in the area.

Callao Man (c. 41000 BCE)

A team of archaeologists led by Dr. Armand
Mijares of the University of the PhilippinesDiliman has confirmed that a foot bone they
discovered in Callao Cave in Cagayan province
was at least 67,000 years old. Tabon Mans
remains were a relatively young 50,000 years
old.
Based on the single bone, it is not clear that
Callao Man was male. But they do know that its
physical size was similar to the modern Negrito,
or Aytas of Luzon.

Callao Man (c. 41000 BCE)

The largest amount of prehistoric evidence of
human existence in the Philippine was found in the
Cagayan Valley. This species is also held to be
Homo erectus philippinensis. The evidence dates
back to the Palaeolithic Age, showing that Cagayan
Man settled in the area over 500,000 years ago.
One theory states that the Cagayan Man followed
prehistoric animals to the then uninhabited
Philippines from another are, through land bridges
that connected the islands to the rest of the
continent.

Callao Man (c. 41000 BCE)

The Cagayan Valley was then met and
mashy, and Cagayan Man opted to live in
the drier forests surrounding the area.
Scientists discovered fossil remains of
large animals in Tuguegarao , Cagayan,
along with fragments of stone tools which
may have been made and used by Cagayan
Man for the purpose of hunting and
butchering these animals.

Callao Man (c. 41000 BCE)

The fossilized animal bones were identified by Dr.

Yves Coppans to be skulls, teeth, and tusks from
rhinoceros, stegodons, and elaphas (a pygmy
elephant). It can thus be said that the Cagayan Man
was a cava dweller who used tools made from
pebbles and rocks.
The sides of the stones were chipped off to create a
sharp edge that could be used for cutting. There has
also been evidence that there tools have been
worked on and refined to give it a better shape.
Larger tools were made from rock cores hammered
to form a sharp point.

Callao Man (c. 41000 BCE)

CALLAO CAVE

Callao Man (c. 41000 BCE)

CALLAO CAVE

Callao Man (c. 41000 BCE)

CALLAO FOOT BONE

Callao Man (c. 41000 BCE)

These fossilized tools were similar to those
found with Java Man and Peking Man and were
dated to the same time period; however,
scientists failed to find fossilized proof of
Cagayan Mans bones.
The earliest human remains known in the
Philippines are the fossilized remains discovered
in 2007 by Armand Salvador Mijares in Callao
Cave, Cagayan, Philippines. A 67,000 tears old
remains that predates Tabon Man.

Callao Man (c. 41000 BCE)

Specifically, they find consisted of a single 61
milimeter metatarsal which, when dated using
uranium series ablation, was found to be at least
about 67.000 years old. If definitively proven to
be remains of Homo sapiens, it would antedate
the 47,000 year old remains of Tabon Man to
become the earliest human remains known in the
Philippines, and one of the oldest human remains
in the Asia Pacific.

Callao Man (c. 41000 BCE)

Homo erectus philippinensis

Callao Man (c. 41000 BCE)

Java Man

Callao Man (c. 41000 BCE)

Peking Man

Tabon woMan (c. 24000 or

22,000 BCE)
Tabon Man refers to remains discovered in the Tabon
Caves in Lipuun Point in Quezon, Palawan in the
Philippines on May 28, 1962 by Dr. Robert B. Fox, an
American anthropologist of the National Museum of the
Philippines.
These remains, the fossilized fragments of a skull and
jawbone of three individuals, were believed to be the
earliest human remains known in the Philippines until
a metatarsal from "Callao Man" discovered in 2007 was
dated in 2010 by uranium-series dating as being 67,000
years old. The Tabon fragments are collectively called
"Tabon Man" after Tabon Cave, the place where they
were found on the west coast of Palawan.

Tabon woMan (c. 24000 or

22,000 BCE)
The Tabon Caves are a series of caves situated in a
limestone promontory at Lipuun Point in
Southwestern Palawan. In this area, cave occupation
of a sporadic or temporary nature by modern humans
seems to be indicated into the early Holocene.
In the earlier Holocene, several sites show more
intensive or frequent occupation; local people appear
to have been strongly focused on land-based, riverine,
and estuarine resources; and in many cases the sea is
known to have been many kilometers away from the
cave sites.

Tabon woMan (c. 24000 or

22,000 BCe)
The fossil which skull and jawbone on three
individuals, discovered on May 28, 1962 by Dr.
Robert B. Fox, an American anthropologist of the
National Museum. These fragments are collectively
called Tabon Man After the place where they
were found on the west coast of Palawan.
Tabon Cave appears to be a kind of Stone Age
factory, with both finished stone flake tools and
waste core flakes having been found at four
separate levels in the main chamber.

Tabon woMan (c. 24000 or

22,000 BCe)
Charcoal left from three assemblages of cooking
fires there has been Carbon-14 dated to roughly
7,000, 20,000, and 22,000 BCE. Tabon Cave is named
after the Tabon Bird (Tabon Scrubfowl,
Megapodius Cumingii), which deposited thick hard
layers of guano during periods when the cave was
uninhabited so that succeeding groups of tool-makers
settled on a cement-lke floor of bird dung.

Tabon woMan (c. 24000 or

22,000 BCe)
That the inhabitants were actually engaged in
tool manufacture is indicated that about half of
the 3,000 recovered specimens examined are
discarded cores of a material which had to be
transported from some distance.

Tabon woMan (c. 24000 or

22,000 BCe)
The Tabon man fossils are considered to have
come from a third group of inhabitants, who
worked the cave between 22,000 and 20,000 BCE.
An earlier cave level lies so far below the level
containing cooking fire assemblages that it must
represent Upper Pleistocene dates like 45 or 50
thousand years ago.
Physical Anthropologists who have examined the
Tabon Man skullcap are agreed that it belonged to
modern man, homo sapiens, as distinguished from
the mid-Pleistocene Homo erectus species.

Tabon woMan (c. 24000 or

22,000 BCe)
This indicates that Tabon Man was PreMongoloid (Mongoloid being the term
anthropologists apply to the racial stock which
entered Southeast Asia during the Holocene and
absorbed earlies peoples to produce the modern
Malay, Indonesian, Filipino, and Pacific
peoples).
Two experts have given the opinion that the
mandible is Australian in physical type and that
the skullcap measurements are most nearly like the
Ainus or Tasmanians.

Tabon woMan (c. 24000 or

22,000 BCe)

Recently, it was concluded that Tabon

mans physical appearance from the
recovered skull fragments believed to be a
woman.

Tabon woMan (c. 24000 or

22,000 BCe)

TABON CAVE

Tabon woMan (c. 24000 or

22,000 BCe)

TABON SKULL

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