1 Early Philippine Shelters Flashcards
Human invention to drive predators away; also used for rituals and gatherings
Fire
First shelter for a primitive
Cave
Materials of earliest tent-like shelters
Wooden skeleton, vegetative fiber, animal skin
Earliest cave dwellers in the Philippines
Pleistocene people, offsprings of the Ice Age
Means of travel of earliest Filipinos
Land bridges when seas subsided because of formation of glaciers
Largest and most antiquated cave dwelt in for 30,000 years
Tabon Cabe complex, Lipuun Point, SW Palawan
People currently still living at caves of SW Palawan
Tau’t Batu
Basic sleeping form within cave, made of tree branches and dried leaves, raised slightly above ground; complete with fireplace
Datag
Evidence of ancient filipino attempt to embellish space and domain with symbolic values
Petroglyphs at Angono, Rizal
Mountaintop citadel as area of defense of the Ivatan, at Savidug, Batanes
Idjang
Type of architecture for the nomad
Ephemeral portable architecture made with readily available materials and limited investment in time and energy
Early dwellings of the Aeta of Pampanga and Zambales, Agta of Palanan
Lean-to, pinanahang
Simple windscreen by Mamanua of Mindanao, Aeta of Pinatubo and Panay when hunting; made of leaves of wild banana, coconut, and grass
Dait-dait
Day and night abode of the Tinguian of Palan, northwest Abra
Bamboo and thatch hut at ground level during day and alligang - smaller bamboo hut on a 20+ meters high treetop during the night
Reason for construction on treetops
Intertribal conflict and nocturnal human and animal raids
Tree houses of the Philippines by what ethnic groups
Gaddang and Kalinga of Luzon, Manobo and Mandaya of Mindanao, Maranao of Lake Lanao
How did ethnic groups minimize vibration for treehouses?
Anchor to surrounding trees using rattan
Trees used by Negritos for treehouses
Tall trees with minimal branches at bottom like the Eucalyptus
Human made terraced pond fields through mountainous terrain; part of UNESCO’s world heritage list
Rice terraces of Cordilleras
Terraces may be found in what altitudes for root crops such as taro to be cultivated
500-1,600 meters
Height of stone walls of terraces which contained the early Filipino hydraulic engineering works
6-16 meters