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    The Tabon Caves

    By Robert B. Fox

    Robert Bradford Fox (1918 – 1985) was an anthropologist and leading historian on
    the prehispanic Philippines. Fox actively served the National Museum of the Philippines
    from 1948 to 1975. In the 1960s, he led a six-year archaeological research project in
    Palawan, focused mainly on the caves and rockshelters of Lipuun Point in the southern
    part of the island. Its most outstanding site is the Tabon Cave complex, the large main
    cave where the only Pleistocene human fossils in the Philippines were found.During the
    initial excavation of Tabon Cave, June and July 1962, the scattered fossil bones of at
    least three individuals were excavated, including a large fragment of a frontal bone with
    the brows and portions of the nasal bone. These fossil bones were recovered at the rear
    of the cave along the left wall. Unfortunately, the area in which the fossil human bones
    were recovered had been disturbed by Magapode birds. It was not possible in 1962 to
    establish the association of these bones with a specific flake assemblage, although they
    were provisionally related to either Flake Assemblage II or III. Subsequent excavations
    in the same area now strongly suggest that the fossil human bones were associated
    with Flake Assemblage III, for only the flakes of this assemblage have been found to
    date to this area of the cave, the available data would suggest that Tabon Man may be
    dated from 22,000 to 24,000 years ago. But, only further excavations in the cave and
    chemical analysis of human and animal bones from disturbed and undisturbed levels in
    the cave will define the exact age of the human fossils.The fossil bones are those of
    homo sapiens. These will form a separate study by a specialist which will be included in
    the final site report from Tabon Cave. It is important to point out. However, because of a
    recent publication (Scott 1969), that a preliminary study of the fossil bones of Tabon
    Man shows that it is above average in skull dimensions when compared to the modern
    Filipino. There is no evidence that Tabon Man was “. . .amass brainy individuals. . .”
    (Scott 1969, 36). Moreover, Scott’s study includes many misstatements about the
    Tabon Caves. Always the problem when writers work from “conversation.”Some
    Geologic Events of the Late Pleistocene and the Upper Paleolithic – There have been
    no detailed geological or paleoclinatic studies of the Late Pleistocene (or of the
    Pleistocene Epochin the Philippines. It is necessary to turn to other regions for relevant
    geological date, specifically to Europe and Africa where in recent years there have been
    extensive studies made of the geochronology of the Late Pleistocene which are
    supported by many C-14 Dates [Movius (1960), De Heinzelin (1963), Lin (1963)] recent
    data for Taiwan and Fairbridge’s (1960 and 1962) general description of the Late
    Pleistocene and changes in absolute sea.It is necessary to point out for those engaging
    in work in limestone caves in the Philippines that fossilization is not necessarily a
    criterion of a great war. Mineralized human bones have been found on the surface of
    Manunggul Coffin Number A, with a jar

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