Butuan Archeology
Butuan City, Agusan del Norte
The Butuan Archeological Sites located in Agusan del Norte are like no other known site in the Southeast Asian region that have archaeological recoveries of a concentration of large, open-water going boats, as that found in Butuan.
The fact that the boats are of Neolithic marine architecture is very unique, and which date between the 10th and 13th century AD.
Butuan, ...
before its colonization, was known as the Kingdom of Butuan, an Indianized kingdom known for its metallurgic industry and sophisticated naval technology. The kingdom flourished at the 10th and 11th centuries CE, and had an extensive trade network with the Kingdom of Champa and the Srivijayan Empire.
Evidence of these trading links are in the discovery of 11 balangay boats around Ambangan in barangay Libertad, which was described as the only concentration of archaeological, ancient, ocean-going boats in Southeast Asia. Other evidences of the post are the discovery of a village in Libertad that specializes in gold, deformed skulls similar to reports in Sulawesi, and the discovery of many artifacts by locals and treasure hunters.
Butuan Archeological Sites News
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Mount Mayon Turtle Islands Chocolate Hills up for inclusion on Unesco list
A number of natural heritage sites in the country made it to the recently updated World Heritage Tentative List of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco).
Aside from the newly listed Mayon Volcano in Albay and Turtle Islands in the Sulu Sea, the Apo Reef National Park in Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro, as well as the Chocolate Hills Natural Monument in Bohol made it to the list.
Completing the list for the natural heritage sites are Coron Island Natural Biotic Area (Palawan); El Nido-Taytay Managed Resource Protected Area (Palawan); Mount Iglit-Baco N ... -
Butuan City to establish archeological park
Butuan City will establish its own archeological park. This was among the announcements made Monday by Butuan City Mayor Ferdinand M. Amante, Jr. in his message during the commemoration of the "first Roman Catholic Mass" and the start of the evangelization of the country which was claimed by Butuan City to have first happened here.
The local government, according to Amante is now trying to negotiate for the procurement of several hectares of land in Barangay Libertad which will become the site of the said park and an access road which will lead to the archeological park.
Amante said that ... -
Centuries old fourth Balanghai boat excavated in Butuan City
Two decades after the first three centuries-old Balanghai boats, or ancient wooden watercraft, were dug out, six archaeologists from the Philippine National Museum in Manila together with personnel from the Regional Museum here have excavated the fourth Balanghai boat where the previous three boats were dug back in the 1980′s at the Ambangan site in Barangay Libertad.
Wilfredo Ronquillo, Chief Archaeologist of Philippine National Museum expressed how impressed he and his team are of the rich historic cultural heritage of Butuan.
Ronquillo said, "The people who have been studying th ... -
Archaeologists begin excavation of 4th balanghai in Butuan
Two decades after the first three balanghai boats were dug out, six archaeologists from the Philippine National Museum in Manila, together with personnel from the Regional Museum here, began last week excavation of the fourth ancient boat in the site the previous three were dug back in the 1980s.
As of today, archaeologists have already dug six to seven feet deep at the Ambangan site in Barangay Libertad here, showing about 30 percent of the balanghai.
Alfredo Orogo, a researcher at the National Museum, said they are still doing initial diggings. Work, he added, may last two to three mon ... -
Next on the World Heritage List
In 2005, The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) with the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (Unesco) National Commission of the Philippines together with public and private stakeholders did a careful review of the country's heritage sites. From that review, 26 sites ??" 11 cultural, 13 natural, and 2 mixed (both cultural and natural) ??" made it to the list of sites for consideration to the Unesco World Heritage List.
CULTURAL HERITAGE SITES
Batanes Protected Landscapes and Seascapes
Declared a protected landscape and seascape in 1994 ... -
Butuan to pursue claim it was site of First Mass in RP 485 years ago
The event that marked the birth of Christianity in the Philippines 485 years ago is still under dispute, with this city renewing its claim that the historic first Mass celebrated by Spanish colonizers was held here and not in Limasawa, Leyte.
Local executives and Church officials as well as historians here said they have new scientific evidence to substantiate the re-filing of a petition before the National Historical Institute (NHI) asserting that Butuan City ??" particularly Mazzaua Island, now Barangay Pinamangculan ??" was the official site of the first Mass on Easter Sunday in 1521.
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