2013/12/20 by Peter Bellwood, Eusebio Dizon · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Island Studies and Pacific Affairs #Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
paper · pdf · doi:10.22459/ta40.12.2013.01
openalex publication_date 2013/12/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
The project reported on in this monograph has been concerned with the archaeology of the Batanes Islands, an archipelago that must have been settled quite early in the process of Austronesian dispersal from Taiwan southwards into the Philippines. A multi-phase archaeological sequence covering the past 4000 years for the islands of Itbayat, Batan, Sabtang and Siayan is presented in the following chapters, extending from the Neolithic to the final phase of Batanes prehistory, just prior to the late 17 th century arrivals of Jirobei, William Dampier, and the first Spanish missionaries. So far, no traces of preceramic settlement have been found in Batanes, but the archaeological sequence there from the Neolithic onwards, like that in the Cagayan Valley in northern Luzon, is now one of the best established in the Philippines. This chapter opens the volume with a review of pertinent aspects of Batanes natural history and ethnohistory.