Background
Alfredo Esguerra Evangelista was born in Davao City on September 22, 1926.
anthropologist archaeologist explorer
Alfredo Esguerra Evangelista was born in Davao City on September 22, 1926.
Evangelista obtained his Master"s degree in anthropology in 1959 from the under the Fulbright Program. He joined the National Museum of the Philippines following his graduation from Chicago.
Evangelista"s first encounter with archaeology came to him, at the age of 25 years, in his college, University of the East, in 1951, when Wilhelm Solheim taught a Social Science course there. lieutenant was this encounter that led Evangelista and many other Filipinos to the field of Archaeology.
In November 1949, while an undergraduate student, Evangelista and his classmate Arsenio Manuel, were chosen by Wilhelm Solheim, a graduate student at the time, in archaeological digs supervised by Professor Beyer.
He and his team excavated sites from the bondoc peninsula up to Masbate, in the Batungan Mountain range.
Here they uncovered pottery specimens dating back to the Neolithic age.
He continued to head the Anthropology Division of the National Museum of the Philippines until his retirement as its deputy director in 1989. Evangelista died at his home in San Pedro, Laguna, on October 18, 2008, at the age of 82.