4000 Years of Migration and Cultural Exchange, The Archaeology of the Batanes Islands, Northern Philippines, The Archaeology of the Batanes Islands, Northern Philippines

Year

2013

Publisher

ANU Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-92502-127-1

Link

Last Update

01-Aug-2026

Keywords

Archaeology

Description

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^thcentury arrivals of Jirobei, William Dampier, and the first Spanish missionaries. So far, no traces of preceramic settlement have been found...