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The Angono - Binangonan Petroglyphs are petroglyphs carved into a rock wall in Binangonan, Rizal, Philippines. It consists of 127 human and animal figures engraved on the rockwall probably carved during the late Neolithic, or before 2000 BC. They are the oldest known work of art in the Philippines. [1]
Laguna Copperplate Inscription- The oldest written document in the Philippines found in Lumban River dated in 900 AD which is written in Kawi. Butuan Silver Paleograph also known as the "Butuan Silver Strip", is a piece of metal with Kawi inscriptions found in Butuan province in the mid-1970s by a team of archaeologists from the National Museum ...
Official NCT Name Current location Period Description Legal Bases/ Official marker Year declared Santa Ana Site Museum: Santa Ana, Manila: 1725: Contains artifacts collected from the archaeological excavations of the churchyard which was the 11th to 14th century AD settlement of the Kingdom of Namayan: PD 260, s. 1973 [33] 1973
The image of the Santo Niño is the oldest surviving Catholic relic in the Philippines, along with the Magellan's Cross. [19] A church to house Santo Niño was built on the spot where the image was found by Juan Camus. The church was originally made of bamboo and mangrove palm, and is thought to be the oldest in the Philippines. The structure ...
These remains, the fossilized fragments of a skull of a female and the jawbones of three individuals dating back to 16,500 years ago, were the earliest known human remains in the Philippines, [1] until a metatarsal from the Callao Man discovered in 2007 was dated in 2010 by uranium-series dating as being 67,000 years old. [2]
Mainly Old Malay with some Sanskrit and either possibly Old Javanese or Old Tagalog according to Antoon Postma The Laguna Copperplate Inscription ( Filipino : Sulat na inukit sa binatbat na tanso sa Laguna ) is an official acquittance ( debt relief ) certificate inscribed onto a copper plate in the Shaka year 822 ( Gregorian A.D. 900).
The Rizal Archaeological Site pushed back the first known human activity in the Philippines 10 times earlier. Prior to the excavation, the oldest fossil discovered in the country was the foot bone found in 2010 in Callao Cave, Cagayan Valley. The bone was dated at least 67,000 years old. [3]
The prehistory of the Philippines covers the events prior to the written history of what is now the Philippines.The current demarcation between this period and the early history of the Philippines is April 21, 900, which is the equivalent on the Proleptic Gregorian calendar for the date indicated on the Laguna Copperplate Inscription—the earliest known surviving written record to come from ...