Ice Age human settlement discovered in Palawan's Pilanduk Cave

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MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network): New discoveries proving the human occupation of Pilanduk Cave in Palawan 20,000 to 25,000 years at the height of the last ice age were unearthed by a team of archaeologists from UP Diliman (UPD) and the National Museum.

In a statement released through the Diliman Information Office on Monday (Sept 12), UPD archaeologist and lead research author Janine Ochoa and co-principal investigator Ame Garong from the National Museum explained that the cave is an important late Pleistocene (ice age) archaeological site in the Philippines.