Daniel Gabriel L.

Puno
BECO 2-2

ACTIVITY 1
1. Between the South China and Sulu seas, the long and narrow Palawan
island chain follows a northeast to southwest pattern. Its maximum width is
24 miles (39 km), and its 270-mile (434-km) length is framed by mountains,
with Mount Mantalingajan (6,840 feet [2,085 meters]) in the south serving
as its highest point. Around 1,800 smaller islands and islets are close to
Palawan; the largest island groupings are the Calamian (north), the
Dumaran-Cuyo (northeast), and the Balabac-Bugsuk. Palawan's lengthy,
irregular coastline is bordered by coral reefs (south). The majority of the
island's inhabitants lives on an irregular coastal plain that hardly ever
reaches 5 miles (8 km) inland.
2. In the Pleistocene Epoch (roughly 2,600,000 to 11,700 years ago), a land
bridge connected Palawan and the island of Borneo. As a result, the animal
life and vegetation of this archipelago, which includes the Balabac and
Bugsuk island groups, are more closely related to those of Borneo than to
those of the other Philippine islands.
3. Archaeology - The fundamental focus of archaeology is the recovery and
interpretation of the physical artifacts that bear witness to human history
as well as the environments in which those artifacts were initially
deposited. Such remains can be identified by their dates and organized into
regional complexes of similar parts. The natures of the boundaries between
these complexes can then be extensively examined, and such complexes
can be compared to other complexes.
4. Using four conventionally acknowledged sub-disciplines—archaeology,
physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology—
it accomplishes this by emphasizing human variety over time and space.
Due to its extensive scope, anthropology also functions as an integrative
field, bringing together research in the humanities, natural sciences, and
social sciences. The 3 given disciplines in the question can be of aid as well
because not only do they study the past culture but also how and where
 they live and also learn how people in the past live whether its social or
cultural processes. In short, yes they can be used in studying achaeology.
5. Material Culture - The purpose of items being manufactured, why they took
the forms they did, and what social, practical, and artistic needs they
satisfied are just a few of the concerns that material culture study looks to
address. The study of material culture can shed light on the lives of those
who have left scant or no other records. Archaeologists teach historians
how to recreate historical societal structures. We can learn a lot about
human behavior, creativity, and the effects of economic, environmental,
and technological pressures on the average person by examining material
culture. Anthropologists, archaeologists, sociologists, psychologists,
geographers, museologists, historians, and art historians all work in the
interdisciplinary field of material culture study. Research is able to shed
light on the intricate relationships between people and things through the
combined efforts of these fields.