Batangas Burial Rituals -linnel m. llanes

 In Batangas settlements, burial grounds arranged in different manners employing distinct interment practices and rituals. The burial grounds were characterized by grave markers or other signs in surface denoting the presence of graves. Usually above the skeleton, giant claws, chunks of brain corrals or both were placed. Some non-Christian peoples in the Philippines still build small structures over graves and offerings placed on the ground beneath the structure such as food in plates and bowls. At both cemeteries, Bakaw and Tomas, hundreds of shreds of earthen ware and porcelain were found on the surface. A further explanation for the presence of many of these shreds is that they are the fragments of vessels which had been placed on the grave to hold offerings being destroyed in the decades which have been passed.