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Core Population Theory in Philippine Prehistory by phenghanni is a document available to read on EtoBox.

F. Landa Jocano, a Filipino anthropologist, questions commonly held theories about Philippine prehistory in this excerpt. [1] He proposes an alternative "core population" theory - that the peoples of Island Southeast Asia descended from the same population and shared a "base culture". [2] This base culture emerged from their adaptation to similar environments and included shared tools, ceramics, housing, beliefs and practices. [3] Western colonizers later fragmented this population into ethnic groups like M

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