How old are the Ifugao Rice Terraces, really?

via Manila Bulletin, 19 June 2022: The exhbiition highlights the world from the Ifugao Archaeology project.

In celebration of National Heritage Month, the Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Southeast Studies opened an ethnographic exhibit entitled “Breaking Myths: Food, Feasts, and the Ifugao” at the Consulate General’s Community Hall.

The exhibit aims to promote a better understanding of Philippine history through the meticulous research undertaken by the Ifugao Archeological Project, a collaboration between the UCLA Center for Southeast Asia Studies, the University of the Philippines Archeological Studies Program, the National Museum, and the Save the Ifugao Terraces Movement.

Among the findings of the Ifugao Archeological Project is one that, debunking the long-held belief that the Ifugao Rice Terraces were built around 2,000 years ago, that the terraced landscape of the Ifugao are the end-result of population expansion into the Cordillera highlands as a response to Spanish colonization.

Source: How old are the Ifugao Rice Terraces, really? – Manila Bulletin