Ppt presentation of Peopling of the Philippines. Categorized into two- Migration Theories and Internal Development Theory. Migration theories have two classifications- Unique Homeland Hypothesis and Multiple Homeland Hypothesis. Unique homeland hypothesis is divided into three- Melanesian Homeland Hypothesis, South China Sea Homeland Hypothesis or Celebes Sea Homeland Hypothesis, and Mainland Southeastern China Homeland Hypothesis. Internal Development Theory has two proponents- Meacham’s Theory and Core Population Theory.
4. 1. MULTIPLE
HOMELAND
HYPOTHESIS
-Henry Otley Beyer
-Also called the Beyer’s
Migration Theory/Wave
Migration Theory
-argues that there are
multiple origins of the
peopling of the
Philippines
The father of
Philippine
Anthropology
5. WAVES OF MIGRATION
➢ believes that Filipinos descended from
different groups in successive/consecutive
manner
7. 2. INDONESIANS
- composed of seafaring and
stone tool-using group from
Indonesia
- would have occurred 5,000
to 6,000 years ago
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*INDONESIAN ‘B’
- took place 2,500 years ago
- featured by their bark cloth-wearing skill
*dispersed and proceeded to diff. islands
*INDONESIAN ‘A’
8. 3. MALAYS
-Occurred less than one
millennium later between
800 and 500 BC
-seafarers (oceanography)
-terrace-building from a
provenance of Indochina
and Central Asia
(basic agricultural skills)
* PROTO-MALAYS
9. * DEUTERO-MALAYS
Probably took place around
300 to 200 years BC
From insular Indonesia
dispersed to different parts
of the Philippines
Advance in farming
Use of iron tools
13. NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION -coined by Australian
archaeologist Gordon Childe in
1935
-an important period of change
in which humans began
cultivating plants, breeding
animals for food and forming
permanent settlements.
15. Locates the Proto-
Austronesian homeland
in mainland
Southeastern China
3. Archaeologist Robert
Heine-Geldern (1932)
Made use of language
as evidence
16. -American linguist Isidore
Dyen (1962 and 1965)
- locates the homeland of
Austronesian speakers
somewhere in Melanesia,
between the Bismarck
Archipelago and the New
Hebrides
b. Melanesian Homeland
Hypothesis (3,500 BC)
17.
18. American
anthropologist and
archaeologist Wilhelm
G. Solheim II (1988)
c. South China Sea
homeland
hypothesis
The peopling of the
Phils. was related to
the thriving of trade
relations happening
around Borneo,
Celebes Sea & SW
Mindanao
“Nusantao”