Tabon Man

Tabon skullcap
Skull cap of a young female found during the 1962 excavation of Tabon Cave
Catalog no.	P-XIII-T-288
Common name	Tabon skullcap
Species	Homo sapiens
Age	16500±2000 years
Place discovered	Tabon Caves, Quezon, Palawan, Philippines
Date discovered	May 28, 1962
Discovered by	Robert Bradford Fox

Tabon *tibia fragment*
Tibia fragment found during the 2000 re-excavation of Tabon Cave
Catalog no.	IV-2000-T-197
Common name	Tabon tibia fragment
Species	Homo sapiens
Age	47000±11000 years
Place discovered	Tabon Caves, Quezon, Palawan, Philippines
Date discovered	2000

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Tabon Man refers to remains discovered in the Tabon Caves of Lipuun Point in Quezon, Palawan, in the Philippines. They were found by Robert B. Fox, an American anthropologist of the National Museum of the Philippines, on May 28, 1962. The fossilized fragments of a skull of a female and the jawbones of three individuals, dating back to 16,500 years ago, were the earliest known anatomically modern human remains in the Philippines.