Archaeological Investigations in the Burnay District of Southeastern Ifugao, Philippines

Abstract

NTIL 1976 ARCHAEOLOGICAL investigations in the Philippines' Ifugao Provincewere confined to the high valleys of Banaue municipality (Maher 1973(Maher , 1975; Fig. 1).This was true of most of the 1976 season as well, with excavations designed to expand on the earlier work done in the Bannawol, Puitan, Amganad, and Nabyun agricultural districts.The intention was to shift operations to the lower valleys in the southeastern part of the province during the latter part of the season.These plans almost went awry when Typhoon Didong, called Olga in the United States, struck the mountains on 21 May.Washing out many kilometers of roads in the lowlands and blocking all of the mountain roads in the province with landslides, the typhoon delayed our shift of location and placed unwelcome pressures of time on conducting the new excavations.In the end, however, due largely to the excellent advance work of my veteran crew chief, Jose Binwag, we were able to accomplish the first part of a three-segment research project planned for the southeastern valleys.The objectives were to conduct excavations at what appear to be the core villages of the important Burnay agricultural district, at Bintacan cave, one of the few natural caves in the province, and at Kiyyangan, the legendary ancestral village of the Ifugao (Fig. 2).During the days left to us by Typhoon Didong only the Burnay district research was attempted in 1976.The other two objectives were held over until 1978.The name Burnay is apparently one of those errors of the ear which have become so embedded by use in both spoken and written language that they are no longer correctable.The agricultural district it refers to is called Bunne by the Ifugao after the name of a fruit tree (Antidesma bunius) which grows abundantly there.The confusion may

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