THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN

OF THE FILIPINOS
PREPARED BY:
YUMUL, SARAH P.
(BSED ENGLISH 1-G)
MOTIVATION
THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN
OF THE FILIPINOS
PREPARED BY:
YUMUL, SARAH P.
(BSED ENGLISH 1-G)
2 THEORIES

1. MIGRATION THEORY
2. JOCANO’S THEORY
MIGRATION THEORY
-henry otley beyer
1. DAWNMAN OR CAVEMAN
2. AETAS OR NEGRITOS
3. INDONESIANS
4. MALAYS
1. DAWNMAN OR CAVEMAN
• First migrants
• 250, 000 years ago
• Resembled java man, Peking man and other homo
sapiens
• They did not have any knowledge of agriculture,
and lived by hunting and fishing
• They came to the Philippines by the way of land
bridges that connected the Philippines and
Indonesia.
2. AETAS OR NEGRITOS
• Second migrants
• 30,000 years ago
• they crossed the land bridged from Malaya, Borneo, and Australia until
they reached Palawan, Mindoro and Mindanao
• naked
• good at hunting, fishing and food gathering
• They used spears and small flint stones weapons
• The Aetas were already in the Philippines when the
land bridges disappeared due to the thinning of the ice glaciers and the
subsequent increase in seawater level.
• remain in the country and become its first permanent inhabitants.
3. INDONESIANS
• Third migrants
• 5,000-6,000 years ago
• Skilled in seafaring
• they had tools made out of stone and steel, which enabled
them to build sturdier houses
• they engaged in farming and mining, and used materials
made of brass; they wore clothing and other body ornaments.
 4. MALAYS
• Last migrants
• They were believed to have come from Java, Sumatra, Borneo,
and the Malay Peninsula more than 2,000 years ago
• travelled in boats.
• brown-skinned and of medium height, with straight black hair
and flat noses
• They engaged in pottery, weaving, jewellery making and metal
smelting
• introduced the irrigation system in rice planting.
2. JOCANO’S THEORY
• Felipe landa jocano (Filipino anthropologist)
• disputes Beyer's belief that Filipinos descended from negritos and
Malays who migrated to the Philippines thousands of years ago.
• 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.
• There is no way of determining if they were negritos at all
• The sure is that there is an evidence that Philippines was inhabited
as early as 21,000 or 22,000 years ago.
2. JOCANO’S THEORY
• In 1962, a skull cap and a portion of jaw, presumed
to be those of a human being, were found in a tabon
cave in Palawan.
• The discovery may show that man came earlier to the
Philippines than to the malay peninsula
• Believes that the present Filipinos are products of the
long process of evolution and movement of people.
References:
Timbang, A. (2013). Theories on the Origin of the Filipino People.
https://prezi.com/m/ixfq3pcejzxi/theories-on-the-origin-of-the-
filipino-people/

The First Filipinos. (2005). http://www.philippine-

history.org/early-filipinos.htm

Flandez, R. (2014). Origins of the Filipino People

.https://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/314506-Origins-of-the-Filipino-
People-2
THANK YOU!
1-2. ENUMERATE THE
TWO THEORIES OF
THE ORIGIN OF THE
FILIPINOS
3. He is the
historian who
proposed the
“migration theory”
4. He is a Filipino
anthropologist who
proposed the
“jocano’s theory”
5. Give 1 of the
migrants that came
in the Philippines