Marvin Dorosan Research Associate, PANTROPOCENE; Graduate Student, UP School of Archaeology Vuhus Island is an uninhabited island to the west of Sabtang. It has an…
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By Marvin Dorosan Research Associate, PANTROPOCENE. Graduate Student, UP School of Archaeology The Municipality of Asipulo is located south of the province of Ifugao in…
By Pau Basilia, Timothy Ong, Alyssandra Lopez, Christian Fernandez, Quincy Lingao, Marvin Dorosan, Salvador Sambitan III, and Grace Barretto-Tesoro The Pata Church ruins, officially…
UPSA returns to Balai Isabel Church Ruins By Nicole Grace H. Casing UPSA Graduate Student The “Pantropocene: Finding a pre-industrial, pan-tropical ‘Anthropocene’” is an ERC-funded…
By Raisa Perez, Joan Quincy Lingao, and Mark Mabanag Introduction On 13 February 2023, we started the first archaeological excavation related to the PANTROPOCENE Project.…
In late April 2023, a couple of years after the start of the European Research Council-funded PANTROPOCENE Project (and countless Zoom meetings), project personnel and…
For those keeping track, we have now identified 6 potential archaeological sites in Laguna and Batangas in the Southern Luzon region for further research as…
Words by Quincy Lingao & Ivana Biong (Research Assistants, PANTROPOCENE Project School of Archaeology, University of the Philippines – Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines) To reflect…
On the 26th anniversary of the founding of the University of the Philippines’ Archaeological Studies Program (UP-ASP) on August 24, 2021, an architect named Michael…
The search for potential areas for study for the PANTROPOCENE project continues. As part of a group of archaeologists from the Archaeological Studies Program (ASP)…








