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Fengbitou Archaeological Site, the Glossary

The Fengbitou Archaeological Site, officially known as Fengpitou (Chungkengmen) Archaeological Site (in Taiwan's archaeological tradition, it is usually spelled n Wade–Giles system), is an archaeological site in Chungmen Village, Linyuan District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on the plateau north to the Chungkengmen Settlement.^[1]

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Table of Contents

16 relations: Adze, Archaeological site, Cord-marked pottery, Cultural layer, Dapenkeng culture, Kaohsiung, Kwang-chih Chang, Linyuan District, Midden, Penghu, Picrite basalt, Prehistory of Taiwan, Qing dynasty, Spindle whorl, Taiwan, Taiwan under Japanese rule.
1941 archaeological discoveries
Archaeological sites in Taiwan

Adze

An adze or adz is an ancient and versatile cutting tool similar to an axe but with the cutting edge perpendicular to the handle rather than parallel.

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Archaeological site

An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of the archaeological record.

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Cord-marked pottery

Cord-marked pottery or Cordmarked pottery is an early form of a simple earthenware pottery.

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Cultural layer

Cultural layer is a key concept in archaeology, particularly culture-historical archaeology especially in archaeological digs or excavations.

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Dapenkeng culture

The Dapenkeng culture was an early Neolithic culture that appeared in northern Taiwan between 4000 and 3000 BC and quickly spread around the coast of the island, as well as the Penghu islands to the west.

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Kaohsiung

Kaohsiung, officially Kaohsiung City, is a special municipality located in southern Taiwan.

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Kwang-chih Chang

Kwang-chih Chang (15 April, 1931 – January 3, 2001), commonly known as K. C. Chang, was a Chinese / Taiwanese-American archaeologist and sinologist.

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Linyuan District

Linyuan District is a suburban district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

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Midden

A midden is an old dump for domestic waste.

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Penghu

The Penghu (Hokkien POJ: Phîⁿ-ô͘ or Phêⁿ-ô͘) or Pescadores Islands are an archipelago of 90 islands and islets in the Taiwan Strait, located approximately west of the main island of Taiwan across the Penghu Channel, covering an area of.

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Picrite basalt

Picrite basalt or picrobasalt is a variety of high-magnesium olivine basalt that is very rich in the mineral olivine.

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Prehistory of Taiwan

Most information about Taiwan before the arrival of the Dutch East India Company in 1624 comes from archaeological finds throughout the island.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.

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Spindle whorl

A spindle whorl is a weighted object fitted to a spindle to help maintain the spindle's speed of rotation while spinning yarn.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.

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Taiwan under Japanese rule

The island of Taiwan, together with the Penghu Islands, became an annexed territory of Japan in 1895, when the Qing dynasty ceded Fujian-Taiwan Province in the Treaty of Shimonoseki after the Japanese victory in the First Sino-Japanese War.

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See also

1941 archaeological discoveries

Archaeological sites in Taiwan

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fengbitou_Archaeological_Site

Also known as Fengpitou.