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According to Dr. H. Otley Beyer, an authority in Philippine prehistory and anthropology, there was no planned and organized waves of migration in the Philippines. Though like this, it was still certain that ancient men, in different periods, came and settled in the Philippines as early as 22 thousand years ago.

It was said that the Negritos are the earliest known inhabitants of the Philippines who reached the country from the Asian mainland by way of the ancient land bridges. Their descendants–called Negritos, Agtas, Aetas, Atis, or Balugas–still exist. It is believed that they came to the Philippines through Palawan and Mindoro, with Borneo as their most probable land of origin. Anthropologists have identified them as being proto-Malays, with dark skin, small flat noses, black kinky hair, small hands and feet, and well-proportioned bodies.

The Philippine Pygmies–or Negritos–have the primitive culture of the Old Stone Age. They do not live in the Permanent homes, have no organized government, and have no system of writing. They live by hunting animals in the forest, by fishing, and by gathering greens and wild fruit. They use the bow and arrow and the blowgun with great skill, both a weapons and for hunting. Their clothes are made of leaves and the barks of trees, and their shelters are built of grass and branches of trees. They, however, have their own folktales, legends, songs, dances, and musical instruments. They cook their food with fire, which–before matches arrived–they produced by rubbing two sticks together.

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