Tracing the History of Contemporary Taiwan’s Aboriginal Groups
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abandoned village analysis
archaeological case studies Taiwan
Austronesian migration
Austronesian Peoples
Austronesian Societies
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Barbarians Song
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Bronze Bracelet
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Crouching Position
cultural continuity studies
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Glass Beads
Hard Shale
Hole Drilling Techniques
indigenous archaeology
Maritime Silk Road
Marriage Union
Metal Age
Paiwan ethnography
Pingtung County
Prehistoric Cultures
Prehistoric Pottery
prehistoric settlement
Qing Government
Red Slip
Reign Period
Ring Foot
Sandstone Clasts
Single Room Houses
Sino French War
Snake Pattern
Southeast Asian Archipelago
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781032148328
- Weight: 140g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2022
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Using archaeological evidence, the author investigates the prehistories of Austronesian migrants to Taiwan and their connections to contemporary peoples in Taiwan. Due to its unique geographic location, Taiwan has played a significant role in various peoples’ maritime migrations and the process of cultural interactions for tens of thousands of years. Within the history of humankind, Taiwan has also evidenced a high degree of cultural continuity. Paleolithic people had already settled on the island at least 30,000 years ago, but Taiwan only entered the historical period as recently as the 17th century. Before this, there was a long and continuous development over the prehistoric period. To this day there are at least 20 different indigenous ethnic groups on the island, totalling over half a million people, all of whom speak Austronesian languages. Investigating the archaeology of abandoned villages, Kuo takes the Paiwan and Sanhe cultures as key case studies of these groups. This book provides valuable insight for historians and archaeologists of Taiwan, and scholars of prehistoric Austronesian migration.
Su-Chiu Kuo is an Associate Research Fellow (tenured) of The Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
