臺灣歷史考古學的一個新展望

A New Perspective on the Historical Archaeology of Taiwan

在臺灣考古學以往的研究中，主要都偏重於史前時代而忽略了歷史時代，以致使臺灣歷史考古學的發展受到了嚴重的阻滯。其實，從臺灣史的特質來看，臺灣不只是史前考古學，而且也是歷史考古學的良好的實驗室。因為，臺灣的歷史，基本上是包括了不同文化族羣的拓殖史，以及伴隨這些拓殖過程所產生的社會文化的變遷史。

It has been ninety years since the first archaeological work was conducted in Taiwan in 1896 (Kanaseki and Kokubu 1950: 1-8; Sung 1954: 91). Reviewing the archaeological work conducted during this period, we may note that the historical archaeology of Taiwan—archaeological study of early historical settlement, especially early Han Chinese settlement--has been almost totally neglected by archaeologists. To my knowledge, only the following few studies of historical archaeology have so far been reported : Lin Ch'ao-ch'i (1966) discovered a few historical shell mounds on the P'eng-hu Islands in 1952. Sung Wen-hsün (1965) identified additional historical shell mounds on P'eng-hu in 1965.