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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.
Majority of these man-made shrine structures (along with the materials assigned to shrine traditions such as statues home to anitos, statues reserved for burial practices in the future, and documents with indigenous writings and calligraphy) [15] were unfortunately destroyed [16] by the Spanish in the 16th century, while transforming the land ...
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”.
Mound C, the northernmost mound of the three at the site, it was used as a ceremonial burial mound, not for elite residences or temples like the other two. [12] The site was the southwesternmost ceremonial mound center of all the mound building cultures of North America. [12] Etowah Mound C: Etowah Indian Mounds, Cartersville, Georgia: 1000-1550 CE
Construction workers on an island in the Philippines stumbled upon human remains from a centuries-old burial site. The workers were digging a drainage trench outside a cultural center in ...
Also, based on the distinct pottery types, it was considered to be the time before contacts with the outside world through trade with China begun. A relatively long period was Period II. The sites were used as burial grounds for inhumation burials in this time. A distinct burial practice was the bundling of the corpse with grave goods.
Filipino pottery had other uses as well. During the Neolithic period of the Philippines, pottery was made for water vessels, plates, cups, and for many other uses. [3] Kalinga Pottery [4] Ceramic vessels of Kalinga are divided into three types: rice cooking (ittoyom), vegetable/meat cooking (oppaya), and water storage (immosso) pots.
It is well before daybreak in Bibiclat, a village in the northern Philippines surrounded by rice fields. After dressing themselves with the leaves, they walk to the church of St. John the Baptist.