MEMBERS

SAGUN, QUIÑONES, ICAONAPO

I. ARTIFACT
BY: SAGUN
The Laguna Copper Plate Inscription

Accidentally discovered in 1986 near the

mouth of Lumbang River, the Laguna
Copper Plate Inscription or LCI is the
earliest historical document in the
country and also the only pre-Spanish
document discovered so far. Now a
National Cultural Treasure, the LCI
measures 7 x 12 inches when unrolled.
In 1990, the National Museum purchased
the LCI and sought help from Antoon
Postma, a Dutch national who was then
the director of the Mangyan Assistance
and Research Center, to decipher the
inscription.
Postma, with the help of Dr. Johan de
Casparis, later found out that the LCI was
written in Kavi (Old Javanese writing
system) and the language used was a
combination of Old Tagalog, Old
Javanese, Old Malay, and Sanskrit
II. SOCIOFACT
BY: ICAONAPO
The Laguna Copper Plate Inscription

• - The LCI is a legal document inscribed on copperplate in 900 AD.

• - We have an ancient Philippine history. THIS IS A NATIONAL TREASURE.
• - Laguna Copperplate Inscription (LCI) became the country's greatest
archaeological discovery in recent years
III. MENTIFACT
BY: QUIÑONES
The Laguna Copper Plate Inscription

It proves that we already had written language and

literacy more than a thousand years ago, well before
European colonization.

The ILC mentions several places all over the Philippine

archipelago and even Madang is Java, Indonesia, names,
rulers, dates/calendar system using an old Hindu-Buddhist
calendar, and even the weight of gold… so we know that
the natives already had (their own way of doing things)
before the arrival of the Spanish, as opposed to the idea
that the Spanish came and “CIVILIZED” the natives.
EDUCATIONAL IMPACT

• This gives people idea that before European civilization they had a written
language and literacy that they use during their times, by the ILC observation
all over Philippines, Indonesia, names, rulers, calendar systems using an old
Hindu Buddhist calendar and even the weight of the gold. This gives an idea
that the people already have their ways to do things before the Spanish arrives,
and as the Spanish came to build a civilization taken from the natives who lived
there years ago before them. So even the Spanish civilized some part of the
archipelago that doesn’t mean the natives things is gone like the native people,
there is always a track or an artifact that’s explains that how they lived at their
era.
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