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The Ille Cave

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The Ille Cave
The Ille Cave
The Ille Cave
The Ille Cave
The Ille Cave
The Ille Cave
The Ille Cave
The Ille Cave
The Ille Cave
The Ille Cave
The Ille Cave
The Ille Cave
The Ille Cave
The Ille Cave
The Ille Cave
Phone:
+91 44 6531 5613

Address:
New Ibajay, El Nido, Palawan Island, Philippines

The Philippines, like other Southeast Asian countries, is an archipelagic body of land and thus, commonly comes in contact with natural resources found in bodies of water. Many of the decorative pieces and tools that they possess, as well as their culture, seem to reflect this maritime characteristic. Tools such as choppers made of shell as well as decorative pieces like shell beads are common in Southeast Asian archaeological records due to this characteristic. According to Hughes, unlike glass beads, trade of shell beads usually occur from the shore line towards the interior of the land mass. Shell beads in the Philippines are generally either whole or cut. Various sites have been found to contain shell beads, including Sucgang Barrio in Bohol; Sibale Island, near Surigao; Suluan island, south of Samar; Lagen Island in Palawan; and Camotes Islands.Various studies have been conducted on these shell beads. Studies on the method of cutting, use, location and whether these were taken whole or broken apart were used as characteristics to define these shell beads. It is also of note that shell beads are of different characteristics throughout the archipelago of the Philippines. Research shows that most of the shell beads found in sites were actually cut beads. This shows that there was a significant development of technique and method to be able to design these shell beads, as modification after the cutting process would have been substantially difficult. Francis discussed in his study of the Philippine shell bead collection, that the beads may have been around since the Late Neolithic period and were later replaced by glass and other inorganic beads from about 200 BCE – 1200 CE.
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