Tabon Caves (Philippines)

found: Work cat.: 2019349105: Peralta, Jesus T. The Tabon Cave Complex of Lipuun Point, Quezon, Palawan, Philippines, 2011:summary (Tabon Caves; Tabon Cave Complex is in Lipuun Point Reservation lies northwest of the municipality of Quezon, Palawan Island, Philippines. The cave contained an astonishing wealth of artifacts)

found: Wikipedia, the Free encyclopedia, February 21, 2020(Tabon Caves, dubbed as the Philippines' Cradle of Civilization, are a group of caves located on Lipuun Point, north of Quezon municipality, in the south western part of the province of Palawan on Palawan Island, in the Philippines. They are part of the Lipuun Point Reservation, which has been protected by the government of the Philippines as a museum reservation to protect the caves and immediate vicinity from deforestation and to preserve the cultural artifacts present there)

found: Unesco.org website, February 21, 2020(Tabon Cave Complex and all of Lipuun Point is located on the west coast of Palawan. The Tabon Cave itself, is the site where possibly the oldest Homo sapiens fossil evidence in Southeast Asia)

found: National Museum of the Philippines website, February 21, 2020(The Tabon Caves are approximately 215 caves in the reservation, 38 of which have been established to be of archaeological and anthropological significance. Although there is only one cave originally named Tabon, all caves in Lipuun Point Reservation have become collectively known as Tabon Cave Complex where numerous archaeological artifacts have been discovered. On April 11, 1972, Presidential Proclamation No. 996 declared the cave complex and all of Lipuun Point in Quezon, Palawan a site museum reservation. To date, only seven caves are accessible and open to the public. Between 1962 and 1966, an archaeological exploration was conducted by a team from the National Museum headed by anthropologist Dr. Robert Fox in the caves of Lipuun Point and its immediate vicinity)