Initiatives

TRACES - Deep Time Archaeological Collaboratory and Cultural Resource Management Space

TRACES ASIA is a transdisciplinary facility for interactive instruction and research within the Anthropological and Sociological Initiatives at the Ateneo (ASIA), which seeks new answers to imminent questions on human evolution and behaviour. TRACES coordinates the deep time archaeological research at Ateneo and is a creative laboratory for the analysis of archaeological material culture (“traceology”) to identify their former function and the related human activities.

Its contextual archaeological research includes the investigation of early human occupation in the Philippines and Island Southeast Asia. Among its current projects are the study of the oldest stone tools in the Philippines, found in association with the 700,000 years old Kalinga Rhinoceros; excavations in Mindoro and on the Island of Ilin in San Jose that have produced the cultural remains of the first modern humans and seafarers that travelled to the Philippine archipelago more than 35,000 years ago, and the traceological analysis of similarly old artefacts made of stone and bone from Central and North Sulawesi. New research intitiatives explore the archaeology of Bohol and Panay, and the integration of automation and robotics in archaeology.

Members

Dr. Alfred Pawlik
Faculty, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Dr. Riczar B. Fuentes
Faculty, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Dr. Tanya Uldin
Faculty, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Dr. Rebekka Volmer
ASIA Research Fellow, Gerda Henkel Foundation, Germany

Dr. Thomas Ingicco
ASIA Research Fellow, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France

Dr. Rintaro Ono
ASIA Research Fellow, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan

Dr. MJ Louise A. Bolunia
ASIA Research Fellow, National Museum of the Philippines

Contact TRACES

3F Eduardo J. Aboitiz Sandbox Zone,
Areté, Ateneo de Manila University
Loyola Heights, Quezon City 1108
Email: apawlik@ateneo.edu