The Peopling of the

Philippines
H. Otley Bayer's waves of migration

• Negritos originally
populated the
Philippines (dark-
skinned, wide-
nosed, similar to
present-day
Aetas)
• Primitive humans
• Came from the
south, these
Australoid-Sakai
type, came were
hunters and
gatherers.
• Indonesian A
came in boats
• Last group to
migrate were the
Malays, the most
advanced
• They were also
from the south,
with mongoloid
features--a
F. Landa Jocano's core population
theory

• Philippine society
developed as a
single unitary
system.
• proposed that
there weren't clear
discrete waves of
migration, but a
Peter Bellwood's “out of Taiwan”
theory

• individual islands
from Southeast
Asia did not
develop
agriculture within
their boundaries.
However, the
dispersal of
agriculture