Detail of Filipino Burial Urn from the year 600
Filipino Burial Urn from the year 600
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This Filipino limestone jar probably once contained human bones. It was discovered in a cave in Cotabato province, Mindanao around the year 600. The rather small size of the jar indicates that the bodies of the deceased had decomposed before the bones were placed within it. A tradition of jar burials existed in the Philippines from the early Neolithic period, and continues in the same parts of Southeast Asia to the present day.
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