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Earlymigrations 111223174239 Phpapp01
Earlymigrations 111223174239 Phpapp01
FLANDEZ
as a requirement of the course
History 211 – Early to 17th Century Philippine History
Let’s go on a journey to
take a glimpse of the past.
No one is sure when
human beings started
dwelling on Earth…
Language:
The Austronesian language family is usually divided
into two branches: Malayo-Polynesian and Formosan.
The Western sub-branch includes over 500 languages
spoken in Madagascar, Malaysia, Indonesia, the
Philippines, parts of Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and
Cambodia.
Prof. Otley Beyer’s
Wave Migration Theory
According to Dr. Beyer, the
ancestors of the Filipinos
came in different "waves of
migration", as follows:
1. "Dawn Man", a cave-man
type who was similar to
Java man, Peking Man,
and other Asian homo
sapiens of 250,000 years
ago.
Prof. Otley Beyer’s
Wave Migration Theory
2. The aboriginal
pygmy group, the
Negritos, who
arrived between
25,000 and
30,000 years ago
via land bridges.
Prof. Otley Beyer’s
Wave Migration Theory
3. The sea-faring tool-
using Indonesian group
who arrived about
5,000 to 6,000 years
ago and were the first
immigrants to reach
the Philippines by sea.
Prof. Otley Beyer’s
Wave Migration Theory
4. The seafaring, more civilized Malays who
brought the Iron age culture and were the
real colonizers and dominant cultural group
in the pre-Hispanic Philippines.
Jocano's theory of earlier
evolution and movement
Anthropologist F. Landa Jocano of the University of
the Philippines contends that what fossil evidence
of ancient men show is that they not only migrated
to the Philippines, but also to New Guinea, Borneo,
and Australia. He says that there is no way of
determining if they were Negritos at all. However,
what is sure is that there is evidence the Philippines
was inhabited as early as 21,000 or 22,000 years
ago. In 1962, a skull cap and a portion of a jaw,
presumed to be those of a human being, were
found in a Tabon Cave in Palawan.
Jocano's theory of earlier
evolution and movement
The discovery may show that man came earlier
to the Philippines than to the Malay Peninsula. If
this is true, the first inhabitants of the
Philippines did not come from the Malay
Peninsula. Jocano further believes that the
present Filipinos are products of the long
process of evolution and movement of people.
Jocano's theory of earlier
evolution and movement