PHILIPPINE SAGA: A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE ARCHIPELAGO SINCE TIME BEGAN (Anthropology of the Philippines) Paperback – November 15, 2024

This is the story of the Philippines, and the men and women who peopled it since remote dawn of Time. The essential data on which the story of our ancestors is based come from many sources, and the historical era covered falls into these three broad periods: I. The Prehistoric Philippines: This era covers the period from the unrecorded beginnings to a point in time roughly coinciding with the begin- rings of the Christian Era, and we must rely for knowledge of it entirely upon the scientific find- ings of geologists and archaeologists. II. The Protohistoric Pertod: This span of time reaches from the beginnings of the Christian Era to the time of Magellan's landing in the Philip-pines, and our knowledge of it comes from some scattered historical records, supplemented by great quantities of data supplied by Historic Archaeo- logy, as differentiated from Prehistoric Archaeo-logy. III. The Historic Period: These four-plus centuries from Magellan's landing to our present day are amply documented by printed records and manuscript literature, additionally supported by pictures of actual events.Twenty-five years ago, our prehistoric past was almost a complete blank. Now, however—-thanks to much patient archaeological investigation-we can accurately fill in considerable sections of it. Our backward bird's-eye view of Philippine prehistory shows six distinct cultural "horizons" clearly standing out. First, there is the primitive human type similar to the Java Man of 250,000 years ago. His ear- liest stone implements and fossil remains have been found in Rizal, Bulacan and Batangas prov-inces, recording a culture he brought to the islands by slow overland migrations more than a quarter of a millions years ago. This primitive man was accompanied by such huge mammals as the Stege-don elephant and the rhinoceros. Our earliest Man-of- the-Philippines wore little or no clothing, and lived only in the caves or rock shelters provided by nature. He subsisted on such raw food as he was able to wrest from his surroundings by means of the primitive stone tools which were his only artificial possessions.Series description: Description:Illustrations by Vicente S. Manansala and Amadeo Y. Manalad. 36x25.5 cm (14x10"), blue cloth, titled in silver on front cover. Third Edition.A thoroughly illustrated history of the Philippines, from the Pleistocene to the Filipino-American War. Its authors include American anthropologist and professor Otley Beyer, and its illustrators include famous Filipino cubist painter Vicente Silva ManansalaThree Volume redux series of Dr. Henry Otley Beyers illustrated history of the Philippines since time began another historical Indigenous restoration and preservation project by Anthropologist Charles Augustus Marcum III. Read more