GORDON COLLEGE

College of Education, Arts and Sciences

Course Title: Readings in Philippine History Professor: Eder E. Magsayo, EdD

Course Code: 32145 Date of Submission: September 23,2022
Schedule of Class: FRIDAY 9:00AM-12:00PM Group Numbers:
Module 3: The Manunggul Jar Miguel, Joshua
Miguel, Lairis
Madamba, Valerie
Hernandez, Jhon Lorence
Lucero, Obrie Dane
Manzano, Joseph

1. Using your own analysis of the map, formulate your own theory of the possible
role of the Palawan peninsula in the history of civilization in the early
Philippines. (You may answer in Filipino or English language below)

Sa aking palagay, maaaring malaki ang naging papel ng tangway ng Palawan sa pag-unlad
ng sinaunang sibilisasyon ng Pilipinas sa pamamagitan ng pagbibigay ng mga produktong
dagat. Ito ay dahil ang Palawan ay pinagkalooban ng iba't ibang uri ng parehong marine at
land-based flora at wildlife.Ang mga Tagbanua, Palaw'an, Tau't Bato, at Bataks ay
pinaniniwalaang ang mga unang taong nanirahan doon.Natuklasan ang mga unang buto ng
mga Pilipino, na nagbigay ng palayaw sa isla bilang "Cradle of Philippine Civilization"na dahil
sa pamamagitan ng fossils at artifacts na ginagamit ng mga naunang tao na naninirahan sa
maagang bahagi ng Holocene. Sinuri ng pisikal na anthropologists ang mga buto na
matatagpuan sa Tabon cave at determinado itong maging mga 47,000 taong gulang.
Nandoon na sila noong unang malaman ng ibang panig ng mundo ang tungkol sa Palawan.
Ang Palawan ay may malawak na sari-saring matabang lupa. dahil dito, sa tingin ko ang
Palawan ang rehiyon na may pinakamaraming rice.
 2. Reflection
What have you leaned in this topic?

By reading the article about the Manunggul jar I discovered that it is the secondary burial jar
excavated from a Neolithic burial site in Manunggul cave of Tabon Caves at Lipuun Point at Palawan
dating from 890–710 B.C. and the upper portion of the jar, as well as the cover is incised with
curvilinear scroll designs and painted with natural iron or hematite. The boat with two human figures
on it sits above the jar lid or cover, signifying two souls traveling to the afterlife. The person whose
hands are crossed over her breast is seated behind the boatman. A customary Filipino habit followed
when arranging the body is the position of the hands. The burial jar, the finest in Southeast Asia and
regarded as the creation of a master potter, represents the early Filipinos' belief in life after death.
Seeing the Manunggul Jar makes me reflect on the greatness of our ancestors and their understanding
of those who die with benevolence and compassion. We learn about our relationships with our
Southeast Asian neighbors through the Manunggul Jar. Despite the variety of cultures among the
peoples of the Philippines, the design serves as evidence of our shared Austronesian ancestry. As each
element in these pieces of art tells a different story, they show Filipino creativity and provide insight
into Filipino life in the Philippines. The ordinary jar came to represent the people's past, present, and
future. The Manunggul jar also emphasized how deeply established in our Filipino value system were
our beliefs about God, our fellow humans, and our nation. This vessel serves as an example of the
cultural connection between the cultural present and the historical past. The Filipino ideals
represented by these figurative burial jars are still very much alive today even if secondary burial is no
longer used in the Philippines. For those who preserve the aforementioned values and live in harmony
with the Almighty Being, many of us still hold on to the belief that there is life after death. We
maintained the idea that we should learn to love our bodies and not be embarrassed to it, it is a
concept we learned from our ancestors. We now have our own ideas about what is beauty, as well as
the proper ways to take care of our bodies. This values that came from our ancestors will became and
remain in the future and it we'll expand on what we're going to accomplish in the near future.