Ref ID:	26972
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Hung, Hsiao-chun Carson, Mike T.
Title:	Foragers, fishers and farmers: origins of the Taiwanese Neolithic
Date:	2014
Source:	Antiquity
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00115352
Abstract:	The Neolithic of Taiwan represents the first stage in the expansion of Austronesian-speaking peoples through the Pacific. Settlement and burial evidence from the Tapenkeng (TPK) or Dabenkeng culture demonstrates the development of the early Taiwanese Neolithic over a period of almost 2000 years, from its origin in the pre-TPK of the Pearl River Delta and south-eastern coastal China. The first TPK communities of Taiwan pursued a mixed coastal foraging and horticultural lifestyle, but by the late TPK rice and millet farming were practised with extensive villages and large settlements. The broad-spectrum subsistence diversity of the Taiwanese Neolithiic was an important factor in facilitating the subsequent expansion of Austronesian-speaking peoples to the Philippines and beyond.
Date Created:	10/16/2017
Volume:	88
Number:	342
Page Start:	1115
Page End:	1131