[3] The existence of anauan as a pueblo (town) was first recorded in the map of Father Pedro Murillo dated on 1734.

These occurrences prompted the people to construct two small stone forts or watch towers (magkatanawan) mounted with artillery.

Poverty incidence of Catanauan Source: Philippine Statistics Authority[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] One of the major agricultural trades by the populace is copra buying and selling.

Last February 21, 2017, an attempt to set a pay-loader on fire at a batching plant in barangay Cutcutan was thwarted thanks to the immediate response of the local police, the army and firemen.

[18] Last June 18, 2017, 2 soldiers were hurt and 2 generator sets were burned at an encounter with the rebels at a Globe cell site tower in barangay Ajos.

Senior women wearing brightly coloured dresses and hats with flowers sing and dance from one house to another to solicit cash donations, half of which is given to the local Parish Church for its expenses during the Lenten Season activities and the other half for their own group's civic projects.

Some men skimpily clad in their undergarments put on mud or grease with charcoal all over their bodies and roam around the town trying to scare young women and children for fun.

Located in Barangay Matandang Sabang Kanluran, this site was heavily stirred up and roiled by quarrying sand.

In the 2008 excavation, a lot of jar burials with their human remains were found in Locality 1, Napa site, specifically in trenches 4 and 6.

Aside from human bones, different-colored glass beads, gastropods and fragments of metal were found inside the jars.

Paz, et al. (2010) stated that as of 2010, there are 28 definite jar burials for the Napa site and they are at least a thousand years old.

Burial jar sherds and fragments of human remains were found on the surface of the site (Paz, et al., 2010).

In 2006, a sand quarry accidentally uncovered at least 5 jar burials containing human skeletal remains in Kanlagkit, Barangay Matandang Sabang Kanluran.

At least three sandpits were left partially open, with the backfill containing earthenware sherds and skeletal fragments (mostly long bone).

A child (neonate) burial was found inside a small earthenware pot 40 cm in diameter, with yellow glass beads buried along with it.

Another burial (a female, from studying the pelvic bone) was discovered, and this had sherds from a small pot and a cylindrical artifact.

Archaeological digs by the Catanauan Archeological and Heritage Project (CAHP) have unearthed a unique iron dagger with an intricately carved bone hilt found at a jar burial site in the municipality facing Marinduque across the waters of the Mompog Pass.

Large earthenware jars were buried along the sandy shores and covered with slabs of coralline or volcanic stone to preserve the bodies.

It was found in a burial jar in Napa Site Locality 4 in 2017 during the CAHP's 9th field season, with the bone hilt in two pieces and four iron shards making up the blade.

The dagger blade measures 14 centimeters in length, and the finger-fitting hilt grip is composed of bone and organic material, likely wood, with alternating layers.

[25] To facilitate several forms of public archaeology and heritage work in the duration of the field season in the Napa site, crew members were oriented to always explain the significance of the archaeological project, at a community level and at larger scale of Philippine culture, to the community members and walk-in groups observing the excavation.