Early Peopling in and Around Taiwan: Pleistocene through Middle Holocene Groups before the Austronesian Era

Hsiao-chun Hung; Chin-Yung Chao; Hirofumi Matsumura; Mike T. Carson

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Early Peopling in and Around Taiwan: Pleistocene through Middle Holocene Groups before the Austronesian Era

Hsiao-chun Hung, Chin-Yung Chao, Hirofumi Matsumura, Mike T. Carson

School of Culture, History & Language

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This chapter reviews chronological and archaeological findings from Palaeolithic and Holocene Preceramic contexts in and around Taiwan. The time range extends from an estimated 450 to 100 kya for seabed finds beneath Taiwan Strait, and it continues through to 5 kya in cave and rock shelter sites on the main island of Taiwan. The “Penghu 1” mandible from the bed of Taiwan Strait has possible Denisovan ancestry, and the only human burial from a Holocene Preceramic site on Taiwan, that of a female from Xiaoma Cave, has been confirmed through craniofacial analysis to be related to Negrito populations in the northern Philippines. This chapter discusses the possibility of several Pleistocene through Middle Holocene episodes of ancient migration, during which different groups reached Taiwan before the arrival of Proto-Austronesian-speaking populations around 5–4.8 kya.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors
Subtitle of host publication	Following Homo sapiens into Asia and Oceania
Editors	Takeshi Ueki, Glenn Summerhayes, Peter Hiscock
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Chapter	9
Pages	150-177
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-003-42748-3
ISBN (Print)	978-1-032-54782-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003427483
Publication status	Published - 2024

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Hung, H., Chao, C.-Y., Matsumura, H., & Carson, M. T. (2024). Early Peopling in and Around Taiwan: Pleistocene through Middle Holocene Groups before the Austronesian Era. In T. Ueki, G. Summerhayes, & P. Hiscock (Eds.), In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors: Following Homo sapiens into Asia and Oceania (pp. 150-177). Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003427483

Hung, Hsiao-chun ; Chao, Chin-Yung ; Matsumura, Hirofumi et al. / Early Peopling in and Around Taiwan: Pleistocene through Middle Holocene Groups before the Austronesian Era. In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors: Following Homo sapiens into Asia and Oceania. editor / Takeshi Ueki ; Glenn Summerhayes ; Peter Hiscock. London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024. pp. 150-177

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Hung, H, Chao, C-Y, Matsumura, H & Carson, MT 2024, Early Peopling in and Around Taiwan: Pleistocene through Middle Holocene Groups before the Austronesian Era. in T Ueki, G Summerhayes & P Hiscock (eds), In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors: Following Homo sapiens into Asia and Oceania. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp. 150-177. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003427483

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In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors: Following Homo sapiens into Asia and Oceania. ed. / Takeshi Ueki; Glenn Summerhayes; Peter Hiscock. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024. p. 150-177.

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