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    Robert Bradford Fox was an American anthropologist and archaeologist born in 1918 in Texas. He graduated from several universities and specialized in Philippine anthropology, serving as the Chief Anthropologist of the Philippine National Museum from 1948 to 1975. He made major contributions through his research and publications, including studies of the Pinatubo Negritos people and the Tabon Caves archaeological site in Palawan, Philippines. Excavations at the Tabon Caves uncovered some of the earliest evidence of human habitation in the Philippines dating back over 22,000 years ago.

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    Robert Bradford Fox was an American anthropologist and archaeologist born in 1918 in Texas. He graduated from several universities and specialized in Philippine anthropology, serving as the Chief Anthropologist of the Philippine National Museum from 1948 to 1975. He made major contributions through his research and publications, including studies of the Pinatubo Negritos people and the Tabon Caves archaeological site in Palawan, Philippines. Excavations at the Tabon Caves uncovered some of the earliest evidence of human habitation in the Philippines dating back over 22,000 years ago.

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    Robert Bradford Fox was an American anthropologist and archaeologist born in 1918 in Texas. He graduated from several universities and specialized in Philippine anthropology, serving as the Chief Anthropologist of the Philippine National Museum from 1948 to 1975. He made major contributions through his research and publications, including studies of the Pinatubo Negritos people and the Tabon Caves archaeological site in Palawan, Philippines. Excavations at the Tabon Caves uncovered some of the earliest evidence of human habitation in the Philippines dating back over 22,000 years ago.

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    Robert Bradford Fox

    • Anthropologist and
    archaeologist
    • Born on May 11,
    1918, in Galveston,
    Texas
    • Robert Fox graduated
    from the universities
    of Southern
    California, Texas, and
    Chicago
    • American anthropologist who made
    substantive and enduring contributions to
    Philippine anthropology (research,
    publications, teaching, and public service)
    •  Chief Anthropologist of the Philippine
    National Museum
    (1948 to 1975) 
    • He died May 25, 1985, in Baguio City,
    Philippines.
    Fox’s major publications include:
    • “The Pinatubo Negritos : Their Useful Plants
    and Material Culture,” The Philippine
    Journal of Science (1951);
    • “Religion and Society Among the Tagbanuwa
    of Palawan Island, Philippines,” (1954);
    • “The Tabon Caves : Archaeological
    Excavations on Palawan Island, Philippines
    (1962-1965),” Philippine Journal of Science.
    The Tabon Caves
    Archaeological Excavations on Palawan
    Island, Philippines
    • The Tabon Caves, dubbed as the Philippines'
    Cradle of Civilization
    • are a group of caves
    located on Lipuun Point,
    in the south western part
    Palawan on Palawan
    Island, in the Philippines.
    Archaeological discoveries
    • The caves are named after the Tabon scrubfowl. 

    Philippine scrubfowl 

    • The caves were researched by Dr. Robert B. Fox and a team


    from the National Museum of the Philippines
    Archaeological discoveries
    • The fossil is composed • The earliest evidence of
    of the skull cap, or the man, himself, in the
    frontal Philippines: which is also
    the earliest appearance of
    skull bone, two fragments
    modern man – Homo
    of jaw bones sapiens sapiens – in these
    and some teeth.  islands,
    • The team found over 1,500 burial jars
    (Manunggul Jar)
    Cave use

    • . Earliest cave uses included inhabitation, and


    the factory like production of stone tools
    Tabon Caves Garuda Gold Pendant
    • A gold Ornamental Pendant, from the Tabon
    caves in the island of Palawan,
    • A few fine pieces of trade pottery and gold
    objects, including a superb gold ornament
    with a garuda image, the vahama or 'vehicle"
    of the Hindu god Vishnu,
    Thank You
    For
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