Foragers, fishers and farmers: origins of the Taiwanese Neolithic

• Autores: Hsiao-chun Hung, Mike T. Carson
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 88, Nº 342, 2014, págs. 1115-1131
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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 (TKP) 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 Neolithic was an important factor in facilitating the subsequent expansion of Austronesian-speaking peoples to the Philippines and beyond