ABSTRACT
The Philippines is an archipelago of several thousand islands lying on the eastern fringes of Asia, in the Pacific Ocean. C. Guthe, an American who conducted archaeological work in the islands in central Philippines from 1922 to 1926, also reported finding several disturbed sites. H. O. Beyer, an American archaeologist who had continuously conducted research in the Philippines for approximately 40 years, similarly listed several disturbed sites. Recognizing the need to conserve and preserve its gradually eroding, non-renewable cultural resources, the Philippine Government enacted a number of laws, the first and most important of which was Republic Act No. 4846, otherwise known as The Cultural Properties Protection and Preservation Act. This Act, passed by the defunct Congress in 1966, declared it to be the policy of the state to preserve and protect the cultural properties of the nation and to safeguard their intrinsic value.
