Readings in Philippine History

Activity: Theories on the Peopling of the Philippines

September 3, 2021
Name: FONTANOS,Crystal May
Course and Year: BSHM-1
Instructions:
1. Search about the following theories regarding the people of the Philippines.
a. Migration Waves Theory by Henry Otley Beyer
b. Theory of Evolution by F. Landa Jocano
c. Austronesian Migration Theory by Peter Belwood
2. Fill up the necessary details in the table below.
3. Answers must be in bullet form.
4. Outputs can be encoded or handwritten.
THEORIES Migration Waves Theory of Evolution Austronesian
Answers must be Theory (Henry Otley (F. Landa Jocano) Migration Theory
based on the Beyer) (Peter Belwood)
theories.

Who are these ● Java man ● Homo Sapiens ● Negritos

people who first ● Peking Man ● Negritos ● Indios
populated the ● Homo Erectus ● Malays ● Moros
country?
● Negritos ● Malays
● Indonesian
● Sumatra

Where did they ● Java ● Early settlers of ● Indonesia

come from? ● Sumatra Southeast Asia ● Malay
● Borneo were within the ● Southeast Asia
● Malay Peninsula ethnic group. ● East Africa
● Micronesia
● Melanesia

How did they reach ● The Negritos ● Jocano suggests ● The Austronesian
the Philippines? arrived in the these people then travelled into the
(means of migration archipelago via went on the Pacific 6,000
if applicable) land bridges.
separate more years ago from
● A group from
Indonesia capable permanently,settl the Chinese
of travelling ing in areas such mainland. First
across the sea as Java,New they reached
and welding tools Guinea,Borneo areas in and
became the first and the around China,
immigrants to Philippines,but Which they
 reach the still ultimately managed to
Philippines using descending from populate by
the ocean. the same 3,500 BC. After
● The Civilised and
migrating this, they began
seafaring Malays
populations. to travel further
brought Iron Age
culture to the and it was just
Philippines and 500 years later
became the that they
dominant group managed to reach
ahead of the the Philippines.
arrival of the
Spanish in the
pre-colonial
period.

Are there proofs/ ● There is no ● Yes ● Yes

evidences used to definite evidence,
support the theory? archaeological or
historical, to
support this
migration theory,
and the passage
of time has made
that more
unlikely.

If yes, what is this ● Evidence of these ● According to

evidence? was discovered in Bellywood this
the Tabon Caves theory not only
in Palawan in explains how
1962,then people came to
archaeologists settle in the
Found the Philippines, but
skulcaps of the also why there
Tabon Man. are so many
similarities in
terms of
culture,physicalfe
atures and
language
between so many
distant countries.
● Cultural
similarities
between the
groups for
example, include
 the art styles and
rituals they
seemed to
demonstrate as
well as some of
the traditions
they adopted
such as tattooing.

If none, why is it so? ● Beyer's reliance

on 19th-century
theories of
progressive
evolution and
migratory
diffusion that
have been shown
in other contexts
to be overly
simplistic and
unreliable and his
reliance on
incomplete
archaeological
findings and
conjecture.

Readings in Philippine History Activity: Peopling of the Philippines Prepared by: EMMT