Cultural Relics Excavated in Taiwan

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Updated: 2003-07-21 19:03

Stone implements excavated at Changbin Township, Taidong County, in 1968. Remains of the late Old Stone Age, their appearance and manufacture are very close to those discovered in the Beijing suburb of Zhoukoudian, site of Peking Man.

Painted and black pottery excavated in the Fengbitou area in Gaoxiong County in 1980. These pieces of pottery. closely connected with the Yangshao and Longshan Culture of the Neolithic period, are vestiges of the culture represented by the geometric pottery found in the middle and lower reaches of the Huanghe River (Yellow River), in the coastal areas and in southern China.

Painted and black pottery, stone tools, woodware, bone and horn implements, fish forks, plated ware, grain and shell ornaments excavated at the Zhishanyan cultural site in the Taibei basin in 1982. Many of these comprise the same cultural elements of the Neolithic period as that in China's southeastern coastal areas.

"Beizhong" tomb uncovered at Penghu's Magong in 1983. Here. four well-preserved skeletons and a great deal of rope-mark pottery, including containers, ornaments and plummets for fishing nets were found. They have been dated to the Shang Dynasty (1711 B.C.-1066 B.C.). Archaeologists believe they are relics taken from the mainland first to Penghu, then to Taiwan, as the same kind of rope-mark red pottery has also been found in central China and at the mouth of the Minjiang River in Fujian Province. Taiwan historians agree that Taiwan culture has its roots on the mainland, that Taiwan is a branch of the mainland tree, and that nothing can separated them.