This collaborative archaeology project uses archival materials, place-name analysis, ethnographic interviews, local scholarship, satellite mapping, and drone LiDAR to investigate American colonialism in the Philippines.
While the Philippines was an American colony from 1898 to 1946, American logging companies followed in the historical trend of Manifest Destiny, leaving lasting changes behind: settlement patterns, infrastructure, routes and mobility, ecological impacts, and environmental hazards all continue to effect life in Bikol today- and can all be studied archaeologically.
Studying the material evidence of American empire in the Philippines reveals frontier connections throughout the Pacific that shed new light on the consequences of both settler and extractive colonialism carried out by the United States.
The data published through this website has been archived in the long-term preservation repository at the UCLA Library. View the repository here.