Ref ID:	29479
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Mijares, Armand Salvador B.
Title:	The Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene foragers of northern Luzon
Date:	2008
Source:	Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association
Notes:	Proceedings of the 18th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Manila, Philippines, 20 to 26 March 2006
Abstract:	Recent excavation in Callao Cave, one of the Peñablanca caves (Mijares 2005), has given us the earliest securely dated site in Luzon, at c. 25,000 BP. Two other Holocene period cave sites (Dalan Serkot and Eme) were excavated. Evidence from faunal identification, macrobotanical and phytolith analyses has shed some insight on the environment and diet of these early foragers. The lithic analysis shows some changes in lithic technology from the Late Pleistocene to the early Holocene. The reconstruction of subsistence strategy shows continuing broad diet subsistence from the Late Pleistocene to the mid Holocene. This differs from previous models for northern Luzon proposed by Peterson (1974) and Thiel (1980). The results of this study also show the probability that hunter-gatherers foraged and survived in the interior tropical rainforest without the support of agriculturalists, as earlier proposed by Headland and Bailey (1989).
Date Created:	7/18/2008
Volume:	28
Page Start:	99
Page End:	107