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| Tabon Cave |
Tabon Cave located on Lipuun Point, Quezon, Palawan Island. Tabon Cave is bordered on the south by the town proper of Quezon, Bgy. Panitian on the west, and the South China Sea on the north and east. The complex has 29 explored caves (only seven of which are open for public viewing), but 215 caves are known to exist on Lipuun Point. They are maintained by the National Museum The archaeologically significant Tabon Cave Complex in Lipuun Point, Quezon, Palawan) in March 1964 by Victor Decalan, Hans Kasten and several volunteer workers from the United States Peace Corps.2 The Manunggul burial jar is unique in all respects. Dating back to the late Neolithic Period at around 710 B.C.,3 Robert Fox described the jar in his landmark work on the Tabon Caves:
The burial jar with a cover featuring a ship-of-the-dead is perhaps unrivalled in Southeast Asia; the work of an artist and master potter. This vessel provides a clear example of a cultural link between the archaeological past and the ethnographic present. The boatman is steering rather than padding the “ship.” The mast of the boat was not recovered. Both figures appear to be wearing a band tied over the crown of the head and under the jaw; a pattern still encountered in burial practices among the indigenous peoples in Southern Philippines. The manner in which the hands of the front figure are folded across the chest is also a widespread practice in the Islands when arranging the corpse.
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| Tabon Cave |
Known as “The Cradle of Philippine Civilization”, the caves have yielded the fossil remains of the 22,000-year-old Tabon man. Of the 200 caves found, only 29 caves were fully explored, and seven open to visitors, including Tabon Cave, which was used for habitation and / or burial sites by ancient peoples. 155 kilometers from Puerto Princesa to Quezon, followed by a 30-minute boat ride to the caves.
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