Filipinos since the first centuries, even before Spaniards came, they already knew how to live well with the help of their own imagination. through the natural excellence of our native Filipinos, they made thaier own gadgets and gizmos to make their living better. These works were already displayed on a museums or any historical places to show our native's creativity and hard work.
According to the History of the country there are several stages that the old Filipinos have gone through before we reach this stage where everything is on the click of the tip of our hands.
Histologists said that the Filipinos have undergone the wood age, stone age and metal age where on this stages they made many admirable works.
On Wood Age, Filipinos starts carving things out of woods and magnificently made the Sibat (spear), Pana (bow and arrow), Martilyo (mallet), and many more which they used for self defense and or catching a wild boar that will serve as their meal to surpass hunger.On this stage they also learn how to make fire by using the woods, particularly bamboo to serve as light, frighten wild animals and cook whichever animal they caught.
On Stone Age, Filipino starts to realize that things made from wood would easily break or diminished, so they find a more durable material to be made as their gadgets. And on this stage they discovered the stone could be broken into pieces and with the help of handmade rope, they bind the stones together to form a much sensible and operational tools., later on they discovered a technic on how they could carve a large stone into a more perfect and stronger form.
On Metal Age, they have already discovered how steel could be melted and permed or formed into a gizmo which is more durable.
Today, although we already have every tools for a specific activity, still many of us will be interested of collecting the tools which was made by our old folks and display it as an accent to a household, but after reading this passage i hope that on every glimpse on that tol that is hanging or displayed on your home, maybe you could think about the evolution of our generation as filipino and how we discover everything that we have now with accordance to the idea and creativity of our old native fellow filipinos and how we should be thankful to them.
To help you appreciate all these, i included some topics, pictures with captions showing the works of the filipinos before hispanic era and also some links to where you could buy these antiques or relics for affordable price for us to start reminiscing the past.
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