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During the Ice Age, glaciers stored portions of the water

on the earth in the form of ice.

When the Ice Age ended about 10,000 years ago, the

ice formation melted and the ocean levels rose. The

land connections to Southeast Asia became flooded.

The flooding submerged the land bridges and created

the Indonesian and Philippine archipelagos. Since then,

these islands had been populated by migrating people

who traveled by boats.

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In 1976, Dr. Voss, a German scientist,challenged the Ice Age theory.

According to him, the Philippines was

never a part of mainland Asia. Dr. Voss claimed that the Philippine

islands were located directly above afault in the earths crust. Powerful

earthquakes pushed up the landmassfrom the ocean floor and the Philippineislands rose from the bottom of theocean.

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Another version on the origin of thePhilippines is the volcanic eruption

theory. Dr. Bailey Willis, a geologist,concluded that the Philippines was aresult of the eruptions of submarinevolcanoes along the western side of the

Pacific basin. These eruptions causedmagma and lava to pile up, forming thePhilippine isles.

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A group of geographers believed thatthe Philippines constitute the remains of

a lost continent during prehistoric times.This continent had sunk below the oceanwaters. However, a few portions of landwhich now make up the Philippines

were left above water.

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The Philippines was formed due to eruptionsof volcanoes in the periphery of the Pacific

Basin of the Pacific Ocean as far as the

eastern part of Asian continent

The eruptions of underwater volcanoes

some 200 million years ago resulted in

the piling up of molten rocks causing the

emergence of islands in the Pacific Ocean the continuing process of volcanism formed

the structural foundation of the Philippines

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According to this theory, the Philippineswas not part of the continental shelfof Asia.

It claims that two (2) processes of

a. DIASTROPHISMupfolding caused therising and formation of the Philippine

archipelago, and all mountains in thearchipelago

This occurred some 200 million years ago

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Proposed by Otley Beyer

According to Dr. Beyer, the ancestors of the Filipinos cameto the islands first via land bridges which would occurduring times when the sea level was low, and then later inseagoing vessels such as the balangay. Thus hedifferentiated these ancestors as arriving in different"waves of migration", as follows:[

"Dawn Man", a cave-man type who was similar toJavaman, Peking Man, and other Asian homo sapiens of250,000 years ago.

The aboriginal pygmy group, the Negritos, who arrivedbetween 25,000 and 30,000 years ago.

The seafaring tool-using Indonesian group who arrivedabout 5,000 to 6,000 years ago and were the firstimmigrants to reach the Philippines by sea.

The seafaring, more civilized Malays who brought the Ironage culture and were the real colonizers and dominantcultural group in the pre-Hispanic Philippines.

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Focused on Language.

This model suggests that Between 4500 BCE

and 4000 BCE, developments in agriculturaltechnology in China created pressureswhich drove certain peoples to migrate toTaiwan. These people either already had orbegan to develop a unique language of

their own. By around 3000 BCE, these groups started

differentiating into three or four distinctsubcultures, and by 2500 to 1500 BC, one of

these groups began migrating southwardstowards the Philippines and Indonesia,reaching as far as Borneo by 1500 BCE,forming new cultural groupings anddeveloping unique languages.

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