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Archaeology in the Philippines began in Marinduque.

Prior to 1900, only one important archaeological investigation had been carried out in the country: Antoine-Alfred Marche ’ s exploration of Marinduque from April to July 1881.

According to anthropologist Henry Otley Beyer, while many other accidental finds have been recorded from time to time and a few burial caves and sites had been casually explored by European or local scientists, no systematic work had been done anywhere else prior to these explorations.

After Marche, the next important archaeological work was undertaken by Dr. Carl Gunthe in the Central Visayan Islands in 1922.