Abstract
Baxiandong site is a nationally designated archaeological site, which is characterized by the Changpin Culture. This culture is well-known because it's so far the only Palaeolithic culture found in Taiwan. Besides the Palaeolithic culture, however, numerous artifacts belonged to late Neolithic age have also been uncovered at the Baxiandong site. This thesis is in an attempt to study these Neolithic artifacts excavated from a newly-found cave named Wuming Cave 4, which is located at the second terrace, with an altitude of 77.9 meters above the current sea-level, of the uplifted conglomerate rocks at Baxiandong. The major problems concerned in this study include: 1. to identify the cultural belonging of the Neolithic remains from Wuming Cave 4, 2. to clarify the debates of the classificatory problem of the Neolithic cultures of Peinan, Chilin and Huakangshan on the east coast of Taiwan. The methods utilized in this study are mainly based on typological, stratigraphical and chronological analyses. The analytical results show that the Neolithic cultural remains of the Wuming Cave 4 should be identified as the Chilin type of the Peinan Culture or a local Chilin phase of the Peinan Culture, which is dated about 3300-2800 B.P.