History Flashcards
The early humans in the Cagayan cave.
500,000 BCE
People belonging to the species Homo Erectus set foot on the Philippines.
400,000 BCE
The first Homo Sapiens in the Philippines.
55,000 BCE
Early humans made stone tools in the Tabon Cave in Palawan.
50,000 BCE
The ancestors in the other caves: Batangas, Bulacan and Rizal.
The other caves of Palawan: Guri and Duyong cave where the Homo Sapiens lived.
8,000 BCE
Negritos start to settle.
40,000 BCE
At the old Kapampangan region was ten times larger than the present borders shown on the map, years ago, a series of the ancient Mount Pinatubo eruptions dumped lava, ashes, tephra and lahar into the sea, forming the present landmass of the region.
35,000 BCE
Tabon Man made stone tools in the Tabon Cave.
20,000 BCE
Multiple Austronesian migrations from Taiwan.
A jade culture is said to have existed as evidenced by tens of thousands of exquisitely crafted jade artifacts found at a site in Batangas province.
4,500–300 BCE
Earliest evidence of rice growing, domesticating chickens and pigs.
c.4000 BCE
Presumed date of the Angono Petroglyphs.
3,000 BCE
The Igorots built forts made of stone walls that averaged several meters in width and about two to three times the width in height around their villages and settlements in the Cordillera region of the Philippines.
c.2000 BCE
The Late Neolithic period in the Philippines, Evidence shows by a Yawning Jarlet on the Burial site in Leta-leta caves in Palawan by Robert Fox which had later become National treasure in the Philippines.
c.1000 BCE
The beginning of Iron Age finds in Philippines also point to the existence of trade between Tamil Nadu and the Philippine Islands during the ninth and tenth centuries B.C.
901 BCE
The Sa Huyun culture , Evidence can be found in Manunggul Jar which is a secondary burial jar excavated from a Neolithic burial site in Manunggul cave of Tabon Caves at Lipuun Point. The depiction of sea-waves on the lid places this Manunggul jar in the Sa Huỳnh culture pottery tradition. These are people that migrated in an East to West migration from the Borneo-Palawan area to Southern Vietnam.
890-710 BCE
The people of Palawan, Cordillera an Batanes become an Ancient goldsmith’s, An Ancient goldsmith shop had discovered that made the 20-centuries-old lingling-o, or omega-shaped gold ornaments in Batanes.
600 BCE
The end of a long clan wars between Ifugao and Kalinga people, The unification of the clans and tribes makes the entire society of Cordillera.
The Banaue Rice Terraces had been constructed by the Igorots in the mountains of Ifugaofor planting rice.
c. 500 BCE
Larger villages came about- usually based near water, which made traveling and trading easier. The resulting ease of contact between communities meant that they began to share similar cultural traits, something which had not previously been possible when the communities consisted only of small kinship groups.
c.400 BCE
The start of the Carabao or Water buffaloes domestication and husbandry.
300-200 BCE
Pomponius Mela, Marinos of and the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea mentioned this island in 100 BC, and it is basically the equivalent to the Indian Suvarnadvipa, the “Island of Gold.” Josephus calls it in Latin Aurea, and equates the island with biblical Ophir, from where the ships of Tyre and Solomon brought back gold and other trade items.
100 BCE
