Archaeological culture · c. 3500–2500 BCE (start debated)

Dapenkeng culture

The Dapenkeng culture is the earliest Neolithic culture of Taiwan, known from coastal sites with cord-marked pottery jars and bowls. Many archaeologists think its people crossed the Taiwan Strait from the mainland and were the ancestors of Taiwan's Indigenous peoples, speaking early Austronesian languages.

If so, their descendants were part of the great Austronesian expansion that later carried related languages across Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

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3500–2500 BCE