China News Service, July 20. According to Taiwan's "United Daily News", Kenting Park Eluanbi Park is a popular attraction. The Reclamation Management Office rebuilt a store in 2017, and the contractor accidentally discovered prehistoric ruins during construction. The archaeological team of Tsinghua University in Taiwan Major discoveries were made in the rescue and excavation, and a large number of tombs were unearthed, estimated to be around 4,000 years ago.
The Reclamation Management Office rebuilt the store in 2017, and the contractor accidentally discovered prehistoric remains during construction.
Photo source: Photo by Pan Xinzhong, a reporter from Taiwan's "United Daily News"
In addition to assisting the preservation of the relics for future display, the Pingtung County Government will report it as a county-designated archaeological site in accordance with the Cultural Assets Preservation Law.
Kenting Eluanbi Park has security concerns due to the old building of the store. In 2017, the Reclamation Management Office spent hundreds of millions (NTD, the same below) to rebuild a modern green building. The contractor accidentally found shell tools in the shallow underground during construction. , human bones and sarcophagus, the Reclamation Management Office stopped work in accordance with the "Cultural Resources Law" and entrusted the archaeological team of Taiwan's Tsinghua University to investigate and research, and unexpectedly excavated cultural treasures of great archaeological research value; the site is located around the Eluanbi Management Center. It is 3 to 5 meters underground. It was suggested by scholars more than 10 years ago that the first site of Eluanbi should be included in the "Listed Archaeological Site".
According to Qiu Honglin, associate professor at Taiwan's National Qing University, the host of the archaeological program, according to the dating results of the excavation, the time of intensive human activities at the first site of Eluanbi fell between 4,200 and 3,800 years ago. , you can learn more about the burial forms and cultural customs of prehistoric humans, and further study the physical characteristics of the human body; in addition, the materials and types of a large number of unearthed pottery, stone tools and shells are unseen in the past and have the characteristics of Kenting cultural artifacts. .
He said that the most surprising thing was that a large number of shellfish and shellfish materials were dug up, including finished products, semi-finished products, blanks and waste materials, which proved that there is a unique set of shellfish processing technology here. This is not only the first sighting in Taiwan, because the shell characters unearthed are similar in shape to those of the Pacific Islands, and they are the oldest, which is of great significance to the evidence of overseas interactions in Taiwan's prehistoric era, and needs further research and comparison.
"In terms of the types of artifacts unearthed from a single site, it is the largest number in Taiwan!" He said, including various types of jade artifacts, boot-shaped stone knives, shell charms, shell-made shark tooth ornaments, bone horn fishing and hunting tools, etc., a large number of unearthed and well preserved, It shows that the local ecology is rich, and in response to the needs of environmental adaptation, the residents have developed material culture and craftsmanship that is unique in Taiwan, which is of great research and educational value; because of the jade stone from eastern Taiwan, it can be used to rediscover the prehistoric history of the southern tip of Taiwan. Interaction with East and West.
According to the cultural assets protection of the county government, the scale of the first Eluanbi site and the amount of relics unearthed exceeded expectations. First, a fund of NT$3 million was allocated to assist the Taiwan Qing University team to preserve the relics, and it was planned to find a public display and revitalization in Hengchun Township With this use, the wonderful historical and cultural depth of the Hengchun Peninsula can be pushed forward by 4,000 years, and it will be reported as a county-designated archaeological site in accordance with the "Cultural Resources Law".