TIMELINE by Jesus T. Peralta June 2005 Š
Phili ppine Events
Dates 4.4 m.y 4.2-1.8 m.yrs. 2 m.yrs.
Espinosa Ranch Site, Cagayan Province. Evidence for the presence of Man in the form of two flake stone tools in situ in the mid-Pleistocene Awidon Mesa Formation - the oldest man-made object associated with fossils of elephas. Stegodon, Elephas, deer, pig, tortoise also in the general area. Middle of the Ice Age. Land bridges to mainland Asia. Paleolithic Culture. Cabatuan, Iloilo. Flake tools, elephas fossils; fossils also in Agusan Valley; Rizal, Quezon City, and Pangasinan.
World Events Ardipitheus- early fossil hominid, Myanmar Different Australopithecines in Africa Homo habilis in Africa
1.5 m.yrs. to 27000 yrs.
Homo erectus, Java Man,in Indonesia
.9+-.17 m.yrs.
Homo erectus, Peking Man, in China. Stone tools; use of fire.
co-eval
100000 BC 75000-35000 BC
Homo sapiens sapiens Homo sapiens neanderthalensis in Europe
Tibia in Tabon Cave
47,000 BC
Earliest H.sapiens sapiens in the Philippines and Southeast Asia
Appearance of the Mamanua in the country, a population now limited about Lake Mainit in Agusan del Norte, Mindanao, identified as a Proto-Malay population.
60,000 BC
Homo sapiens neanderthalensis burial -50,000 of the dead with flowers. Crossing of the Bering Straits from Asia to the American continent
Tabon Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan. Earliest occupation. Flake stone tool assemblage.
50000-45000 BC
Negrito Populations with eastern and western branches on both sides of the Philippines Beginning of sea level rise at the end of Ice Age as earth temperatures rise. Polar Ice begins to melt.
30000-20000 BC
Tabon Cave, Lipuun Point, Quezon, Palawan - Tabon Woman - earliest fossil evidence of H.sapiens sapiens in the Philippines. Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) fossil in Tabon Cave
Cro-Magnon man Altamira Rock paintings
16,700 BC
Laurente Cave, Penablanca, Cagayan, N. Luzon inhabited with flake stone tools of chert,andesite, opalines; burnt bones.
16000-8000 BC
Guri Cave. Lipuun Point, Palawan. Flake stone tools, marine shells. Sea about the present level. Land bridges, loast coastal areas inundated.
13000 BC 12220-9780 BC
Pottery in Padah-Lin Cave in Myanmar.
10000 BC
Food plants grown in the fertile crescent; beans, peas, water chestnuts grown in Thailand.
9750 BC
Cultivation in Thailand, peas, beans, etc.