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Although the great majority of the people of the Philippines are Tagalog, the country is not ethnically homogeneous. In spite of their small numbers the original inhabitants of the Philippines are the Agta (diminutive Africoids), who still live there in some numbers and are commonly and pejoratively called Pygmies, Negritos and Aeta, and a variety of other names based upon their specific location. In regards to phenotype, broadly speaking, the Agta can be described as physically small and unusually short in stature, dark-skinned, spiral-haired and broad-nosed. They are an extremely ancient people and, we believe, close representatives of the world's earliest modern humans.
After the first waved of immigrants consisting of the Pygmies, the seafaring Indonesians came about 4000 to 3000 B.C. , bringing with them their Neolithic culture. The third wave consisted of the Malays who possessed the Iron Age culture of about 200 B.C. to 1,500 A...