Prone burial at the Shihsanhang Site, with both hands folded behind the back (Tsang et al., 2001, p. 36, Fig. 14).

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... were found at the Talongtong and Botanical Garden Sites, which were possibly used for storage purposes. The round-bottomed, globular-bellied guan jars include a large number with wide rims, as well as those with wide rims and folded bellies, some with short ring feet, and some with cord-marked patterns and some undecorated (Chu, 2012, p. 115, Fig. 93). This kind of wide-rimmed vessel with ring feet has also been found at the lower level of the Botanical Garden Site, while long-necked ping bottles (瓶) have been unearthed at both the Talongtong and Botanical Garden Sites. In addition, there have also been discoveries of globular-bellied bo bowls (缽), folded-bellied bo bowls, ...

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... of burials were in areas outside of the house structures (as indicated by the pillar holes), so were perhaps conducted as burials outside the house but still within the activity area of the settlement. A minority of burials overlap each other (Tsang, Liu, Thu, & Chen, 2001, p. 39). There is also one example of prone (face and body down) burial (Fig. 3). The author surmises that the dead person may have come from central Taiwan and died at the Shihsanhang settlement while getting married or on some other occasion, but was then interred in accordance with their home-community burial customs. Tools of subsistence are mainly concave stones and stone hammers, as well as stone-made ...

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... were found at the Talongtong and Botanical Garden Sites, which were possibly used for storage purposes. The round-bottomed, globular-bellied guan jars include a large number with wide rims, as well as those with wide rims and folded bellies, some with short ring feet, and some with cord-marked patterns and some undecorated (Chu, 2012, p. 115, Fig. 93). This kind of wide-rimmed vessel with ring feet has also been found at the lower level of the Botanical Garden Site, while long-necked ping bottles (瓶) have been unearthed at both the Talongtong and Botanical Garden Sites. In addition, there have also been discoveries of globular-bellied bo bowls (缽), folded-bellied bo bowls, ...

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... of burials were in areas outside of the house structures (as indicated by the pillar holes), so were perhaps conducted as burials outside the house but still within the activity area of the settlement. A minority of burials overlap each other (Tsang, Liu, Thu, & Chen, 2001, p. 39). There is also one example of prone (face and body down) burial (Fig. 3). The author surmises that the dead person may have come from central Taiwan and died at the Shihsanhang settlement while getting married or on some other occasion, but was then interred in accordance with their home-community burial customs. Tools of subsistence are mainly concave stones and stone hammers, as well as stone-made ...