Robert Bradford Fox (1918–1985) was an anthropologist and leading historian on pre-Hispanic Philippines.
In 1958, Fox led a National Museum team in conducting extensive excavations on two sites at Calatagan, Batangas, in what may be considered the first systematic excavation involving the National Museum in the country. His report, published in 1959, was based on artifacts and information derived from 505 graves in two sites known as Kay Tomas and Pulong Bakaw. In the 1960s, by then the head of the Anthropology Division of the National Museum of the Philippines, he led a six-year archaeological research project in Palawan, focusing mainly on the caves and rockshelters of Lipuun Point in the southern part of the island.[1] Its most outstanding site is the Tabon Cave complex, the large main cave delivered the only Pleistocene human fossils found in the Philippines to date. The fossil finds include a skullcap, jaw bones, teeth and several other fragmented bones. Dubbed the "Tabon Man", the finds represent more than just one individual. Their age has been determined using radiometric dating, giving dates between 16500 ±2000 B.P for the skull cap and 48,000 ±11,000 B.P. for a tibia fragment.[2]
Fox actively served the National Museum of the Philippines from 1948 to 1975. In 1975, while serving as consultant to the Philippine President on anthropological matters and as Dean of Brent School in Baguio, Philippines, he had a stroke which impaired his speech and right arm, preventing him from pursuing his teaching and research work. Subsequent strokes left him confined to home until his death in 1985. Besides his service with the National Museum, Fox taught at the University of the Philippines and served as Presidential Assistant for National Minorities.[3] An obituary appeared in The Journal of Asian Studies.[4]
^Fox, Robert B. (1970), The Tabon Caves. Archaeological Explorations and Excavations on Palawan Island, Philippines., National Museum
^Archaeology in the Philippines, the National Museum and an Emergent Filipino Nation, Wilhelm G. Solheim II Foundation for Philippine Archaeology, Inc., retrieved December 16, 2008, citing Fox, 1970.
^Robert B. Fox (1918–1985), National Museum of the Philippines, archived from the original on July 24, 2008, retrieved December 16, 2008.
^Jstor, citing Mario D. Zamora (May 1986), "Obituary: Robert Bradford Fox (1918–1985)", The Journal of Asian Studies, 45 (3): 667, doi:10.1017/s0021911800063968.
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