History Book as Time Machine Traces Roots of People in Asia Pacific

In tracing the roots of where people of Asia Pacific came from, for the purpose of identifying peaceful approaches of resolving conflicts, Ben J. Kadil's book, History of the Moro and Indigenous Peoples in Minsupala could provide the answers to some nagging questions. If you can take a sort of "time machine," just like in the movies and go back to Mindanao's ancient past, sometime between 4,000 B.C. traveling until 1300 A.D., you will find that Mindanao was peopled by a dominant group called the Proto-Manobo (as labeled by scholars). During that time in Mindanao, there was only one language spoken, and the ever-elusive unity that we have been searching for today had already been achieved in that distant past. In an allusion, a history professor once asked, in reference to Ben Kadil's book, "Did you know that most of our brothers from the Visayas and Luzon can trace their roots back here in Mindanao?" The arrival of the Proto-Manobo in Mindanao during the Indo-MalayPeriod (circa, 4,000 B.C. to 1300 A.D.) via Celebes and Borneo through the Sulu archipelago ended up in the region between Cotabato and Zamboanga. They were our Mindanaoan ancestors. Recent findings in archeology and linguistics have confirmed that the Proto-Manobo speakers have established a flourishing settlement in Northeastern Mindanao, specifically in Butuan, a city now located in the Caraga Region.