Ateneo robot reveals seafaring technologies of early Filipinos

MANILA, Philippines — A robot developed in collaboration with the Ateneo Laboratory for Intelligent Visual Environment (Alive) is “reshaping how we explore our distant past.” Long before the first Spanish vessels arrived in the Philippines in the 1500s, islands across the archipelago were already home to seafarers who crossed straits, island chains and open seas that were once thought to be impassable to humans. Alfred Pawlik, a professor at Ateneo de Manila University’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology, showcased early stone tool artifacts in a public lecture, detailing archaeological evidence of the “seafaring and hunting strategies used by early inhabitants […]... Keep on reading: Ateneo robot reveals seafaring technologies of early Filipinos

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