The-peopling-of-the-Philippiness (1) .PPTM

THE PEOPLING OF
THE PHILIPPINES
REPORTERS:
Glenn G. Acala BSCE-2B
Mary Ann Abenon
LEARNING OUTCOME
▪At the end of the session, the students should be able
to identify the different geographical locations of the
indigenous peoples of the Philippines.
WHAT IS PEOPLING ?
▪ According to findwords.com, peopling means
“To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as
with people; to populate.”
▪ A body of persons that are united by a common
culture, tradition or sense of kinship, that are
typically have common language, institutions,
and beliefs, and that often constitute a
politically organized group
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COMMON TO AUSTRONESIANS
Cultural traces include:
▪ Tattooing
▪ Outriggers of canoes
▪ Prehistoric art styles Social characters
Language:
▪ The Austronesian language family is usually divided into two branches:
Malayo-Polynesian and Formosan. The Western sub-branch includes over 500
languages spoken in Madagascar, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, parts of
Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia.
▪ Archaeological finds in Palawan (e.g.,
Tabon Skull fragments) suggest that there
were already prehistoric inhabitants in the
Philippines as early as the Pleistocene
period.
▪ Through carbon dating, the fossil remains
were believed to be about 22,000 years
old.
▪ In the Philippine cultural landscape, the
new Stone Age was the impetus of the
development of Filipino modern societies.
▪ Fossils of Java man retrieved from diff. sites
of central Java
▪ Dated back 1.3-0.5 million years ago.
DIFFERENT THEORIES OF THE PEOPLING
OF THE PHILIPPINES.
AUSTRONESIAN MIGRATION THEORY
• The Austronesian migrations began
from the Chinese mainland, reaching
Taiwan first in 3500 BC then the
Philippines by 3000 BC. They reached
Sumatra and Java by 2000 BC,
Northern New Guinea by 1600 BC,
Samoa by 1200 BC, Hawaii, Easter
Island, and Madagascar by 500 AD,
etc.
THEORY OF WILLIAM MEACHAM
• The first hypothesis argues that

there is an internal development
happening within the so-called
Austronesian region.
• This means that there was an internal
human evolution that transpired
around that area.
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MULTIPLE HOMELAND HYPOTHESIS
PROPOSED BY BAYER
H. Otley Beyer, which argues that there are
multiple origins of the peopling of the Philippines.
• The first wave relates to the movement of

people coming from Indonesia to the
Philippines.
• The second movement also originated from
Indonesia—when the people reached the
country, they dispersed and proceeded to
different islands.
• The third wave came from Indochina, while
the last wave came from Mainland China to
the Philippines.
MELANESIAN HOMELAND HYPOTHESIS (CITED
IN THE WORK OF DREN)
•Melanesian Homeland Hypothesis

which argues that the movement of
people originated from Melanesia
around 3,500 BC.
THE UNIQUE SOUTH CHINA SEA HOMELAND
HYPOTHESIS PROPOSED BY SOLHEIM
• The Unique South China Sea Homeland

Hypothesis proposed by Wilhelm
Solheim, meanwhile, argues that the
peopling of the Philippines was related to
the thriving of trade relations happening
around Borneo and the Celebes Sea
(Gaillard and Mallari, 2004). The trade
activities brought the Nusantao to the
Philippines and even as far as Taiwan.
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UNIQUE MAINLAND SOUTHEASTERN CHINA
HYPOTHESIS
•Made use of linguistic evidence (lexicon and morphology) to

demonstrate the origins of the movements of people to the
Philippines, but to this day the movement routes are still in question
(Gaillard and Mallari, 2004).
•Archaeologist Heine-Geldern believed that the movement started

in South China, then proceeded to the Malay Peninsula moving
toward Borneo and then finally through Palawan (Gaillard and
Mallari, 2004).
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A slightly different hypothesis was proposed by Thomas and Healey and Llamzon
(in Gaillard and Mallari, 2004).
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Their theory argues that the
movement started from
Southeastern China, to Indochina,
Malay Peninsula, then to Borneo,
finally entering the Philippines
through different routes, one group
going to Palawan and Mindoro and
the other through the island of
Mindanao.
A slightly different
hypothesis was
proposed by Thomas
and Healey and
Llamzon (in Gaillard
and Mallari, 2004).
THEORY PROPOSED BY SUGGS AND
SHUTLER
•Lastly, the theory proposed by Suggs and Shutler and

Marck maintains that the movement of people to the
Philippines started in China, proceeding to Formosa,
then to the Batanes Islands until the group scattered
around the archipelago and reached as far as Borneo
(Gaillard and Mallari, 2004).
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THE PEOPLING OF

• The first hypothesis argues that

• The first wave relates to the movement of

•Melanesian Homeland Hypothesis

• The Unique South China Sea Homeland

•Made use of linguistic evidence (lexicon and morphology) to

•Archaeologist Heine-Geldern believed that the movement started

•Lastly, the theory proposed by Suggs and Shutler and

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