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Melchor Cave


Title Details
  • Melchor Cave
Subjects
  • 1971
  • Land forms
  • Gasan, Marinduque
  • 1971
  • alfred marche
  • amrt
  • burial jars
  • burial practices
  • burial sites
  • gasan
  • human bones
  • human remains
  • luzon
  • marche
  • marinduque
Material Type
  • VM
  • Visual material
Online Sources
Photographer
  • Ayala Museum Research Team
Format
  • With prints
Owner
  • Filipinas Heritage Library
Collection
  • Filipinas Heritage Library
Image Type
  • Original
Place
  • Gasan, Marinduque
Item Call Number GE00654
Status Available
Barcode GE00654
Local Free-text Call Number (oclc)
  • Classification number - GE00654
Main Entry
  • Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element - Ayala Museum Research Team
Title Statement
  • Title - Melchor Cave
  • Statement of responsibility, etc. - Ayala Museum Research Team
General Note
  • General note - Interior of the cave, a few steps from its mouth, shows fragments of burial jars and wooden coffins. A few pieces of what looks like badly damaged skulls are also found. The burial caves here were first explored (archaeologically) by the French naturalist Alfred Marche in April 1881. Moat of the caves were damaged by waves and earthquakes.
Additional Physical Form Available Note
  • Additional physical form available note - With prints
Immediate Source Of Acquisition Note
  • Source of acquisition - Filipinas Heritage Library
Ownership And Custodial History
  • History - Filipinas Heritage Library
Subject Chronological Term
  • Chronological term - 1971
Subject Topical Term
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Land forms
Subject Geographic Name
  • Geographic name - Gasan, Marinduque
Subject Faceted Topical Term
  • Focus term - 1971
  • Focus term - alfred marche
  • Focus term - amrt
  • Focus term - burial jars
  • Focus term - burial practices
  • Focus term - burial sites
  • Focus term - gasan
  • Focus term - human bones
  • Focus term - human remains
  • Focus term - luzon
  • Focus term - marche
  • Focus term - marinduque