is the skull cap of a "Stone-Age Filipino", about 22,000 years old.
Discovered by Dr. Robert B. Fox, American
anthropologist of the National Museum, inside Tabon Cave Palawan, on May 28, 1962.
The Coming of the Negritos
They came during the Old Stone Age
(Paleolithic) walking dry-shod through Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and the land bridges and were the first inhabitants.
The Indonesians
- First Sea-Immigrants
They were the maritime Indonesians, who
belonged to the Mongoloid race with Caucasian affinities.
They belonged to the New Stone Age
The Malays
They belong to the Iron Age culture.
Daring and liberty-loving, the Malays belonged
to the brown race.
Prominent contribution: - Ati-atihan festivals
- Maragtas chronicle
- The Code of Kalantiaw
Music
The ancient Filipinos had music practically for
all occasions, for every phase of life, from birth to death.
Bamboo Zither
A Kolitong is a bamboo polychordal tube zither
from Bontok, Kalinga, Philippines with six strings that run parallel to its tube body. The strings are numbered from one to six, from lowest to highest pitch. The body acts as the instrument's resonator.
Gaddang
The Gaddang people are a linguistically
identified ethnic group of related families sharing lengthy residence in the watershed of the Cagayan River in Northern Luzon, Philippines.