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Origins of the Filipino People
Wave Migration Theory
Probably the oldest theory about how ancient man came to the
Philippines, the wave theory of migration (1947) is also one of the most
attacked theories. Dr. Dizon, for one, says that the theory is not based on
facts. It is, however, the one most known to FIlipinos because the grade school
textbooks still use this as a means of explanation as to how ancient man came
to the country. According to Beyer, there was a core population who lived
250,000 years ago. They were primitive humans similar to the Java Man. This
group was the ancestors of the two pygmy groups who came to the Philippine
Islands via the land bridges 30,000-25,000 years ago (Pleistoscene Era). From
the south these people, who were of Australoid-Sakai type, came to the islands.
They were hunters and gatherers. Then 6,000-5,000 years ago, another group,
which Beyer branded as Indonesian A, came in boats. They were of tall and
slender stock, and were inhabitants of the north. This group was followed by
another wave of migrants 2,500 year ago, the Indonesian B. Shorter and stockier
than their predecessors, this group were more advanced. They were horticulture
people who, Beyer surmised, came from South China and Indochina towards Luzon
and Formosa (now Taiwan). The last group of people who migrated to the
Philippines, the Malays, were, for Beyer, the most advanced of all the races.
They were also from the south, with mongoloid features--a mixture of ancient
Indonesians and mongoloid elements. They had knowledge in pottery, glassmaking,
iron making, weaving, and had their own political system. They also came in
boats, which Beyer called the Baranggay. The same name was used to connote...