Midterms The Peopling of the Philippines

Question 1

popular theory suggests that the
ancestors of modern Filipinos traveled to
the archipelago in different “waves of
migration”

Answer 1

BEYER’S WAVE MIGRATION THEORY

Question 2

American anthropologist behind the
Wave Migration Theory, which is
arguably the most well-known of all the
theories on how humans came to live in
the Philippines

Answer 2

HENRY OTLEY BEYER

Question 3

A cave-man type human who
was related to Java Man,
Peking Man and other Asian
Homo erectus specimens, was
present in the Philippines.

Answer 3

DAWN MAN

Question 4

An aboriginal group
of hunters and
gatherers, arrived in
the archipelago via
land bridges.

Answer 4

THE NEGRITOS

Question 5

Historians believe Negritos arrived
in the Philippines in small
migrations from mainland
____

Answer 5

Southeast asia

Question 6

Negritos are the only surviving
members of the original hunter
gatherers that lived in Southeast
Asia, alongside their cousins the
__________

Answer 6

Semang Negritos of Malysia

Question 7

Also known as ____, the Negritos of
Luzon and other islands in the
Philippines are a population
characterised by small size and
African-like features, including dark skin
and curly hair.

Answer 7

Aeta

Question 8

It was these characteristics that
encouraged Spanish missionaries who
arrived in the 16th Century to name the
group Negrito, which is a term that
means _____

Answer 8

“Little black person”

Question 9

A group from Indonesia capable of
travelling across the sea and
wielding tools became the first
immigrants to reach the Philippines
using the ocean.

Answer 9

INDONESIAN GROUP

Question 10

The seafaring, more civilized Malays
who brought the Iron Age culture and
were the real colonizers and
dominant cultural group in the pre-
Hispanic Philippines.

Answer 10

MORE CIVILIZED MALAYS

Question 11

propounds on the expansion of a
group of people called the
Austronesians from Asia into the
Pacific by means of Taiwan 6,000
years ago.

The theory largely explains the
similarities in culture, language and
physical attributes in different
countries in the most Asian countries.

Answer 11

AUSTRONESIAN EXPANSION THEORY (Austronesian Migration Theory)

Question 12

They travelled into
the Pacific 6,000 years ago
from the Chinese mainland.
First, they reached areas in and
around China, which they
managed to populate by 3,500
BC.

After this, they began to travel
further, and it was just 500
years later that they managed
to reach the Philippines.

Answer 12

AUSTRONESIANS

Question 13

Who proposed the Austronesian Expansion theory

Answer 13

PETER BELLWOOD

Question 14

Also called: Austronesian. a family of languages
extending from Madagascar to the central Pacific,
including Malagasy, Malay, Indonesian, Tagalog, and
Polynesian.

Answer 14

MALAYO-POLYNESIAN

Question 15

The ____ languages belong to the Austronesian
family. They are diverse and fall into three major
branches: _____, ______, and _____

Answer 15

FORMOSAN
Atayalic, Tsonic, Paiwanic

Question 16

A Filipino anthropologist, was behind the
development of the Core Population
Theory - otherwise known as the
Evolution Theory - and one of the first
to question Beyer’s Wave Migration
Theory.

Answer 16

FELIPE LANDA JOCANO

Question 17

Jocano’s theory proposed that there weren’t
actually particularly clear or distinct ‘waves’ of migration taking
place in the Philippines.

According to Jocano, it’s likely that two of the main groups that
acted as the foundation for this development were the _____
and the _____, who are thought to have migrated to the
archipelago many thousands of years ago.

Answer 17

CORE POPULATION THEORY

Negritos and the malays

Question 18

Dated to between 21,000 and 22,000 years ago, ______
proves - according to Jocano - that man came earlier to the
Philippines than to the Malay Peninsula, so the first inhabitants
of the Philippines could not have been from the region.

Answer 18

Tabon man