英文摘要 |
This paper is the first paper of the author concerning the re-organization and studies of the background materials for Taiwan zooarchaeology. It details and discusses the mammalian faunas and other large vertebrate animals existing in Taiwan in different periods of time. According to the nature of the materials analyzed, the paper can be divided into three parts and a synthetic discussion. Part I: The Pleistocene Faunas (I). The Chochen (or Zuo-zhen) Fauna In this part, the author discusses the species of Pleistocene mammals in Taiwan. Source materials for this discussion are mainly from the quantities of palaeotological reports published since the time of Japanese Occupation. In this part, he first divides the Taiwan Pleistocene mammals into two groups: The early group is called 'the Chochen (or Zuo-zhen, 左鎮) Fauna'', named by Shikama et al. in 1975 after a batch of animal fossils discovered on the riverbeds of the Cai-Liao Stream (菜寮溪) in the Zuo-zhen area of Tainan County. Taking mammalian fossils unearthed in situ from the Zuo-zhen area as a basis for correlation, and combining the information concerning the stratigraphical range of various known fossils of the East Asian and South Asian regions, the author analyzed and compared the mammalian fossils from the Zuo-zhen area and 29 other localities in Taiwan. He argues that the mammalian remains at these localities basically can be categorized as Chochen Mammalian Fauna in the broad sense. |