Reading in the Philippine History

AT #3
Analyzing History
Expected Output: Written analysis
Instruction: Analyze the significance of the repositories in the cultures and context of the source.

1. What are the evidence mentioned found in the Tabon Cave?

The evidence that was mentioned found in the Tabon Cave are human fossil that is composed
of the skull cap, or the frontal skull bone, two fragments of jawbones, and some teeth. They
assumed that the fossils found in the cave were 3 individuals and the skull cap was assumed to
be a young female. They also found tools in the Tabon Cave which is still used.
2. What are the basis provided to prove that such evidence is authentic or not?
According to the article about the Tabon Cave, the layer in which the Tabon Man's remains
were found has been dated to 22 to 23 thousand years old, indicating the antiquity and
prehistoric nature of the fossils. This can also be shown simply by the stone tools. The cave's
oldest soil layer was dated to be over 50,000 years old, and the youngest to be around 10,000
years old. This indicates that the cave has been continually inhabited for around 40,000 years
by individuals who used the same equipment. Furthermore, the tools discovered were
constructed in the same style as those discovered 700,000 years ago in the Cagayan Valley:
smaller flake tools and larger pebble-cobble tools. The smaller flake tools and the larger
pebble-cobble tools were created in the same style as those discovered in the Cagayan Valley
about 700,000 years ago. However, there was one distinction. There were numerous large
types of stone tools in the Cagayan Valley. There were less than 1% of pebble-cobble
implements in the Tabon Cave compared to the other caves. The following discoveries formed
the basis of Palawan evidence until the National Museum's systematic excavations at Lipuun
Point in 1962, which confirmed the significance of these sites to Philippine and Southeast Asian
prehistory.
3. What are the important contribution of the evidence to Philippine history?
The important contribution of the evidence found in the Tabon Cave to the Philippine history is
that it provides people a lot more knowledge of what happened, where it happened, what are
the things they used at that time, and to find that other human species inhabited here in the
Philippines. Tabon Cave was also the first place where humans were identified in the
Philippines during the Pleistocene period. It also adds up to the tourist spots here in the
Philippines that attract, and it interests a lot of tourists that is why it is visited day by day.