Tabon Man

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The Tabon Man is a term used to reference a particular set of remains of Homo Sapiens.

The Tabon Cave in Palawan, Philippines, was a burial site of Homo sapiens. Carbon-14 dating tests reveal that fossil remains date back to 22,000 to 24,000 years before 1960 to 1967 (the years the excavations were held). However at the deeper 160 cm level, the estimated dating of flake assemblage is from 45,000 to 50,000 years ago, probably over 60,000 years. The anthropologist Robert Fox, who directed the excavations, deduces that the Tabon cave was a habitation of man for a period of 40,000 years, from 50,000 to 9,000 years ago.