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Detail on a jar cover molded into a human head. Even though the burial jars are similar to that of the pottery found in Kulaman Plateau, Southern Mindanao and many more excavation sites here in the Philippines, what makes the Maitum jars uniquely different is how the anthropomorphic features depict “specific dead persons whose remains they guard”.
Poverty incidence of Maitum 10 20 30 40 50 2006 32.50 2009 42.75 2012 39.77 2015 47.66 2018 38.60 2021 26.65 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Coffee bean chocolate matcha (Don Ricardo’s Chocolate, Maitum) Maitum aqua-culture fish cages The economy of Maitum is largely based on agriculture and is often called the "rice-granary" of Sarangani due to its high level production of rice ...
A funeral procession in the Philippines, 2009. During the Pre-Hispanic period the early Filipinos believed in a concept of life after death. [1] This belief, which stemmed from indigenous ancestral veneration and was strengthened by strong family and community relations within tribes, prompted the Filipinos to create burial customs to honor the dead through prayers and rituals.
Manunggul Jar (890–710 B.C.) is a secondary burial jar excavated from a burial site in the Manunggul cave of the Tabon Caves at Lipuun Point in Palawan. It dates from 890 to 710 B.C. [18] and the two prominent figures at the top handle of its cover represent the journey of the soul to the afterlife.
Grave goods are utilitarian and ornamental objects buried with the deceased."Pabaon", as present day Filipinos know, is the tradition of including the priced possessions or items of the dead to its grave because of the belief that these things might be helpful to the deceased as it travels to the life after death.
The Manunggul Jar is a secondary burial jar excavated from a Neolithic burial site in the Manunggul cave of the Tabon Caves at Lipuun Point in Palawan, Philippines. It dates from 890–710 B.C. [ 2 ] and the two prominent figures at the top handle of its cover represent the journey of the soul to the afterlife .
It served as a secondary burial jar, where the top cover depicts the journey of the soul into the afterlife through a boat with a psychopomp. [39] In 100 BC, the Kabayan Mummy Burial Caves were carved from a mountain. Between 5 BC-225 AD, the Maitum anthropomorphic pottery were created in Cotabato. The crafts were secondary burial jars, with ...
Notable artifacts include the Manunggul Jar (890–710 BCE) [170] and Maitum anthropomorphic pottery (5 BC-225 AD). [171] High-fired pottery was first made around 1,000 years ago, leading to a ceramic age in the Philippines. [135] Ceramics were traded, and pottery and fragments from the Arab world (possibly Egypt) and East Asia have been found ...