Tabon Man

Two experts have given the opinion that the mandible is "Australian" in physical type and that the skullcap measurements are the closest to Ainu people or Tasmanians.

Lipton Point is made up of 25 million-year-old limestone and is composed of rocky large domes, deep cliffs, and steep hills.

In this area, cave occupation of a sporadic or temporary nature by modern humans seems to be indicated in the early Holocene.

[8] Although the Tabon Cave complex is just a few minutes walk from the sea, the lack of marine shells from early cultural deposits in this cave supports the concept that there was a substantial land shelf around the time of the Last Glacial Maximum, when estimates place sea levels at 130 metres (430 ft) below present or possibly lower.

The appearance of marine shells in middens in other caves on Lipuun Point from c. 7000 BP, and especially in later periods, suggests increasing focus on marine resources in the area in general; the abandonment of the Tabon Cave complex just before this time may be related to sea level rise.

The potential relationship between Tabon Cave travertine and pre-Late Glacial Maximum wetter climates sees some support from recent research on vegetation sequences in north Palawan.

In the Tabon Cave, chert flakes and chopping tools, evidence of early humans being food gatherers and hunters, were found.

Early humans lived and knapped flake tools inside the Tabon Cave.