1 Early Philippine Shelters

Question 0

Human invention to drive predators away; also used for rituals and gatherings

Answer 0

Fire

Question 1

First shelter for a primitive

Answer 1

Cave

Question 2

Materials of earliest tent-like shelters

Answer 2

Wooden skeleton, vegetative fiber, animal skin

Question 3

Earliest cave dwellers in the Philippines

Answer 3

Pleistocene people, offsprings of the Ice Age

Question 4

Means of travel of earliest Filipinos

Answer 4

Land bridges when seas subsided because of formation of glaciers

Question 5

Largest and most antiquated cave dwelt in for 30,000 years

Answer 5

Tabon Cabe complex, Lipuun Point, SW Palawan

Question 6

People currently still living at caves of SW Palawan

Answer 6

Tau’t Batu

Question 7

Basic sleeping form within cave, made of tree branches and dried leaves, raised slightly above ground; complete with fireplace

Answer 7

Datag

Question 8

Evidence of ancient filipino attempt to embellish space and domain with symbolic values

Answer 8

Petroglyphs at Angono, Rizal

Question 9

Mountaintop citadel as area of defense of the Ivatan, at Savidug, Batanes

Answer 9

Idjang

Question 10

Type of architecture for the nomad

Answer 10

Ephemeral portable architecture made with readily available materials and limited investment in time and energy

Question 11

Early dwellings of the Aeta of Pampanga and Zambales, Agta of Palanan

Answer 11

Lean-to, pinanahang

Question 12

Simple windscreen by Mamanua of Mindanao, Aeta of Pinatubo and Panay when hunting; made of leaves of wild banana, coconut, and grass

Answer 12

Dait-dait

Question 13

Day and night abode of the Tinguian of Palan, northwest Abra

Answer 13

Bamboo and thatch hut at ground level during day and alligang - smaller bamboo hut on a 20+ meters high treetop during the night

Question 14

Reason for construction on treetops

Answer 14

Intertribal conflict and nocturnal human and animal raids

Question 15

Tree houses of the Philippines by what ethnic groups

Answer 15

Gaddang and Kalinga of Luzon, Manobo and Mandaya of Mindanao, Maranao of Lake Lanao

Question 16

How did ethnic groups minimize vibration for treehouses?

Answer 16

Anchor to surrounding trees using rattan

Question 17

Trees used by Negritos for treehouses

Answer 17

Tall trees with minimal branches at bottom like the Eucalyptus

Question 18

Human made terraced pond fields through mountainous terrain; part of UNESCO’s world heritage list

Answer 18

Rice terraces of Cordilleras

Question 19

Terraces may be found in what altitudes for root crops such as taro to be cultivated

Answer 19

500-1,600 meters

Question 20

Height of stone walls of terraces which contained the early Filipino hydraulic engineering works

Answer 20

6-16 meters