Robert Bradford Fox, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Robert Bradford Fox

Filipino historian

Date of Birth: 11-May-1918

Place of Birth: Galveston, Texas, United States

Date of Death: 25-May-1985

Profession: historian, archaeologist, anthropologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Robert Bradford Fox

  • 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 (Fox 1970).
  • 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 as 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.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 City, Philippines, he suffered 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.
  • An obituary appeared in The Journal of Asian Studies.

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