1 Early Philippine Shelters Flashcards

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

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Fire

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First shelter for a primitive

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Cave

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Materials of earliest tent-like shelters

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Wooden skeleton, vegetative fiber, animal skin

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Earliest cave dwellers in the Philippines

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Pleistocene people, offsprings of the Ice Age

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Means of travel of earliest Filipinos

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Land bridges when seas subsided because of formation of glaciers

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

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Tabon Cabe complex, Lipuun Point, SW Palawan

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People currently still living at caves of SW Palawan

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Tau’t Batu

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

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Datag

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

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Petroglyphs at Angono, Rizal

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

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Idjang

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Type of architecture for the nomad

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

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

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Lean-to, pinanahang

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

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Dait-dait

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

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

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Reason for construction on treetops

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Intertribal conflict and nocturnal human and animal raids

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Tree houses of the Philippines by what ethnic groups

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

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How did ethnic groups minimize vibration for treehouses?

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Anchor to surrounding trees using rattan

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Trees used by Negritos for treehouses

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Tall trees with minimal branches at bottom like the Eucalyptus

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

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Rice terraces of Cordilleras

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

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500-1,600 meters

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

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6-16 meters