ASP Lithics Lab

Katipunan Arkeologist ng Pilipinas, Inc.

National Museum of the Philippines

University of the Philippines Webpage

University of the Philippines (Diliman)

The Solheim Foundation

Talastasang Bakas (Sayt ni Dr. Z.A. Salazar)

Bagong Kasaysayan

Erasmus Mundus Master in Quaternary and Prehistory

Human Origins Patrimony in Southeast Asia

Victor Paz

Professor
victor.paz@up.edu.ph

Research Interest:
I am very much interested in Southeast Asian and Pacific archaeology, although my concentration for the past few years has been on Island Southeast Asia and the Philippines. I am interested in further advancing archaeobotanical studies in the region with the objective of elucidating human-plant and human-landscape relationships in the past. I keep an active field work profile with an active multidiciplinal approach in addressing research questions. Studying transforming cultural consciousness and cosmologies and their materiality in Southeast Asian and Oceanic cultures is a standing interest of mine.

Area of Specialization:
Archaeobotany, Island Southeast Asian archaeology, Public archaeology, Materiality of consciousness

Current Projects:

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Palawan Island Palaeohistoric Project

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Peopling of the Philippines Project

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Mindoro Island Archaeology Project

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Cagayan de Oro river valley Project

Education

Ph.D. Archaeology, University of Cambridge, U.K.

Mphil Archaeology, University of Cambridge, U.K.

M.A. History, University of the Philippines, Diliman

A.B. History, University of the Philippines, Diliman

Archaeology Courses Taught

Archaeology 1

The Philippines: Archaeology and History (undergraduate)

Archaeology 201

Foundations of Archaeology

Archaeology 206

Archaeology 207

Archaeology 299

Major Publications (since 2001)

2008

with Philip Piper, Janine Ochoa, Helen Lewis, Wilfredo Ronquillo. The first evidence for the past presence of the tiger Panthera tigris (L.) on the island of Palawan, Philippines: Extinction in an island population. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 264:123-127.

2008

with Helen Lewis, Myra Lara, Huw Barton, Philip Piper, Janine Ochoa, Timothy Vitales, Jane Carlos, Tom Higham, Leee Neri, Vito Hernandez, Janelle Stevenson, Emil Robles, Andrea Ragrario, Rojo Padilla, Wilhelm Solheim and Wilfredo Ronquillo. Terminal Pleistocene to mid-Holocene occupation and an early cremation burial at Ille cave, Philippines. Antiquity 82 (316): 318-335.

2007

with Huw Barton. Subterranean Diets in the Tropical Rain Forests of Sarawak, Malaysia. In Denahm, Tim, Jose Iriarte and Luc Vrydaghs (Eds.). Rethinking Agriculture: Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives. California:Left Coast Press, pp. 50-77.

2007

with J-C Gaillard, FG Delfin, Jr., EZ Dizon, EG Ramos, CT Remotigue, KS Rodolfo, FP Siringan, JL A Soria, and JV Umbal. Planning for the Future: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Reconstructing the Buag Episode of the Mt. Pinatubo, Philippines. In Grattan, John & Robin Torrence (Eds.). Living Under the Shadow: The Cultural Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions. One World Archaeology Series, Volume 5, California: Left Coast Press, pp. 225-252.

2007

with Michael I. Bird, Ella M. Boobyer, Charlotte Bryant, Helen A. Lewis and W. Edryd Stephens. A long record of environmental change from bat guano deposits in Makangit Cave, Palawan, Philippines. Earth and Environmental Science: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 98:59-69, Cambridge University Press.

2007

Public Archaeology in Mindoro and the Improvement of a Philippine National/Cultural Consciousness. Proceedings of the International Seminar on Archaeology and Nation Building: in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Centre for Archaeological Research Malaysia. Penang: Pusat Penyelindikan Arkeologi Malaysia, pp. 52-65.

2007

with Graeme Barker, Huw Barton, Michael Bird, Patrick Daly, Ipoi Datan, Alan Dykes, Lucy Farr, David Gilbertson, Barbara Harrisson, Chris Hunt, Tom Higham, Lisa Kealhofer, John Krigbaum, Helen Lewis, Sue McLaren, Alistair Pike, Phil Piper, Brian Pyatt, Ryan Rabett, Tim Reynolds, Jim Rose, Garry Rushworth, Mark Stephens, Chris Stringer, Jill Thompson and Chris Turney. The ‘human revolution’ in lowland tropical Southeast Asia: the antiquity and behavior of anatomically modern humans at Niah Cave (Sarawak, Borneo). Journal of Human Evolution 52(3): 243-261.

2006

The Philippine Islands and the Discourse on the Austronesian Dispersal. in Simanjuntak, T, Pojoh I.E.H., M. Hisyam (Eds.). Austronesian Diaspora and the ethnogenesis of People in Indonesian archipelago. Jakarta: LIPI Press, pp. 279-298.

2005

Rock Shelter, Caves and Archaeobotany in Island Southeast Asia. Asian Perspectives 44 (1): 107-118

2005

with Jean-Christophe Gaillard, Francisco G. Delfin Jr., Eusebio Z, Dizon, John A. Larkin, Emmanuel G. Ramos, Cristina T. Remotigue, Kelvin S. Rodolfo, Fernando P. Siringan, Janneli Lea S. Soria, Jesse V. Umbal. Dimension anthropique de l’ éruption du Mont Pinatubo, Philippines, entre 800 et 500 ans BP (Anthopogenic dimension of the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, between 800 and 500 year BP. L’anthroplogie 109: 249-266.

2004

Of nuts, seeds and tubers: The archaeobotanical evidence from Leang Burung 1. in Keates, S.G. & J.M. Pasveer (eds.). Quaternary Research in Indonesia. Modern Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia 18: 191-220.

2004

Addressing the redefinition of the Palaeolithic and the Neolithic in the Philippines. Proceedings of the Society of Philippine Archaeologists 2:1-14.

2004

with J-C Gaillard, F.G. Delfin, Jr., E.Z. Dizon,E.G. Ramos, C.T. Remotigue, K.S. Rodolfo, F.P. Siringan, J.L.A. Soria, J.V. Umbal. Socio-economic impact of the c. 800-500 yr BP eruption of Mt. Pinatubo (Philippines) Hypotheses from the archaeological and geographical records. Proceedings of the Society of Philippine Archaeologists 2:46-58.

2004

Editor. Southeast Asian Archaeology: Wilhelm G. Solheim II Festschrift. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press.

2004

Crop Domestication in Southeast Asia. In Goddman, Robert (ed.) Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science. Marcel Dekker Inc.: New York, pp. 320-322.

2003

Terms to ponder for a Southeast Asian archaeologist. Proceeding of the Society of Archaeologists in the Philippines 1: 1-12.

2002

Island Southeast Asia: Spread or Friction Zone? in Peter Bellwood & Colin Renfrew (Eds.). Examining the farming/language dispersal hypothesis. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 275-285.

2002

with Graeme Barker, Huw Barton, Michael Bird, Franca Cole, Patrick Daly, David Gilbertson, Chris Hunt, John Krigbaum, Cynthia Lampert, Helen Lewis, Lindsay Lloyd-Smith, Jessica Manser, Sue McClaren, Francesco Menotti, Phil Piper, Brian Pyatt, Ryan Rabett, Tim Reynolds, Mark Stephen, Jill Thompson, Mark Trickett, Paula Whittaker. The Niah Cave Project: The third (2002) season of fieldwork. The Sarawak Museum Journal LVII (78):87-177.

2002

with Graeme Barker, Huw Barton, Paul Beavitt, Michael Bird, Patrick Daly, Chris Doherty, David Gilbertson, Chris Hunt, John Krigbaum, Helen Lewis, Jessica Manser, Sue McClaren, Phil Piper, Brian Pyatt, Ryan Rabett, Tim Reynolds, Jim Rose, Garry Rushworth, Mark Stephens. Prehistoric foragers and farmers in South-east Asia: Renewed investigation at Niah Cave, Sarawak. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 68: 147-164.

2001

The Niah Cave Project: The second (2001) season of fieldwork, by Greame Barker, Dana Badang, Huw Barton, Paul Beavitt, Michael Bird, Patrick Daly, Chris Doherty, David Gilbertson, Ian Glover, Chris Hunt, Jessica Manser, Sue McLaren, Brian Pyatt, Tim Reynolds, Jim Rose, Garry Rushworth and Mark Stephens. The Sarawak Museum Journal LVI (77): 37-120.

2001

Cut not smashed: a new type of evidence for nut exploitation from Sulawesi. Antiquity 75: 497-498.