Module 3: Archaeological and Anthropological Discoveries

Question 1

Tabon cave was named after…?

Answer 1

Megapode (tabon bird)

Question 2

Representative of an early Homo sapiens or
“Modern Man” who had reached Palawan during the last exposures of the Quarternary
land-bridges.

Answer 2

Tabon man

Question 3

A cave that is tucked into a towering cliff which forms the north-western face of a massive limestone promontory called Lipuun by the local people.

Answer 3

Tabon cave (1962)

Question 4

A massive limestone promontory that was was
formed by uplifted, coralline limestone which oil geologists have dated to the Middle Miocene; cliffs and slopes are honeycombed with caves.

Answer 4

Lipuun point

Question 5

A cave that is located about 375 feet above the present sea level, tucked into a face of a sheer cliff which forms the western exposure of Lipuun point, making the view of the South China Sea and the tropical islands that dot the foreground truly and unbelievably spectacular; was not only a place of burial but a sacred sanctuary or cemetery in the sky.

Answer 5

Manunggul cave

Question 6

A cave that was first evaluated as an archaeological site or landscape in 1998 under the leadership of Dr. Wilhelm Solheim; where several human skeletons, animal bones, potsherds, shells, beads, and tools were found.

Answer 6

Ille cave