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Earliest settlements in Taipei discovered Taiwan

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An Academia Sinica archaeologist said he has found the ruins of Taiwan's earliest settlement in Taipei. Liu Yi-chang dated the settlement around 2,500 years before Christ.

Commissioned by the Taipei city cultural bureau, the archaeologist started digging a vacant lot at the Talungtung elementary school last year. Shard and stone implements were found in a layer only 3.5 meters under the ground. They belonged to the earliest humans that settled in the Taipei basin about 4,500 years ago, Liu claims. No fossils (sic) of the settlers were discovered, however.

That made scientific dating of the users of what Liu identifies as Neolithic artifacts next to impossible. "But the pottery shard we found seems to have been part of a pot for cooking," Liu said.

He said the earliest settlers in Taipei probably were able to use canoes to go all the way up river to get good mud for pottery near Mount Tatun. No vestige of a canoe was found in the vicinity to bear out Liu's hypothesis. Liu defined the relics as those of what is known as Hsintangpu culture in Taiwan's prehistory.

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Archeologists find 20,000-year-old hearth in Taitung by coldrum on Thursday, 01 October 2009
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Archeologists find 20,000-year-old hearth in Taitung

EARLIEST HUMAN RELIC: The stone hearth unearthed at the Baisandong Historical Site proves that humans have been living in Taiwan for more than 20,000 years


A team from Academia Sinica has recently discovered a neolithic stone hearth in a cave in Taitung County that has been confirmed as the earliest human relic to have been discovered in Taiwan, Taitung County Government said yesterday.

After a year of investigation and research, the prehistoric archeology research team discovered the hearth at the Basiandong (Eight Deities) Historical Site (八仙洞遺址), which carbon-dating reveals to be 20,000 years old, an official with the county’s Cultural and Tourism Bureau said.

“The sample proves that humans were living in Taiwan more than 20,000 years ago,” the official quoted Tsang Chen-hua (臧振華), deputy director of Academia Sinica’s Institute of History and Philology, who led the research team, as saying.

In addition to the fire place, the research team also discovered seven new caves, bringing the number of caves discovered at the Basiandong Historical Site to 24, the Taitung official said.

Taitung Cultural and Tourism Bureau said the Basiandong site attracted the attention of Japanese archeologists during the colonial period and they explored the main cave, located in a coastal cliff area in the county’s Changbin Township (長濱).

Between 1968 and 1969, a National Taiwan University archeology team led by professor Sung Wen-hsun (宋文薰) worked on the Basiandong Historical Site again, discovering four samples that were later carbon dated as being between 5,000 and 15,000 years old.

To verify the dates of the relics, the Council for Cultural Planning and Development asked Academia Sinica to conduct a new round of research.

“The discoveries by Tsang and his team are tremendously important in terms of Taiwan’s neolithic archeological research,” the official said.
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