The Unto site: excavations of a late first millennium B.C. and mid-second millennium A.D. habitation site in southeastern Negros Island, the Philippines. From: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and thePacific | Date: March 22, 1997| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1997 University of Hawaii Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The Unto archaeological site on Negros Island in the south-central Philippines has provided evidence for the earliest human occupation in the islands, dating to the first millenium B.C. Decorated earthenware fragments were mixed with remnants of trade goods dating from as late as historic times. Further research will be necessary to more precisely define the periods of human occupation.

Although southeastern negros island in the central Philippines has been the focus of systematic archaeological research since the 1970s, most of this research has and continues to be (Junker 1994) focused ...

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