Tabon skullcap is Homo sapiens female dated 16,500±2,000 years old. Tabon tibia fragment is Homo sapiens dated 47,000±11,000 years old. Tabon mandible is Homo sapiens dated 29,000 years old with archaic mandible and teeth traits. Fossils represent earliest anatomically modern humans in Philippines. Cave complex shows human habitation for 40,000 years from 50,000 to 9,000 years ago. Stone tools and flakes indicate Stone Age tool factory. Charcoal from fires dates to 7,000, 20,000, and 22,000 BCE. 483 human remains found in 1962 and 2000 excavations. Physical anthropologists confirm remains as modern Homo sapiens not Homo erectus. Cave occupation tied to Upper Pleistocene around 45,000-50,000 years ago. Indirect evidence of basket and rope making from 33,000-39,000 years ago on tools. Tabon culture involved food gathering, hunting, and burials. Region had C3 forest, savannah, grassland 32,000 years ago. Caves far inland during low sea levels in late Pleistocene. Complex abandoned before 7,000 BP maritime shift. Homo luzonensis in Luzon dated 67,000+ years but distinct species. Earlier hominin activity in Philippines at 709,000 years on rhino fossil.
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