"If the Paiwan's glass beads really were brought in by their ancestors," Ch'en concludes, "then they must have arrived sometime after the first century A.D." Even if the glass beads may have provided an answer with respect to the Paiwan, the question of when the other peoples arrived remains shrouded in mystery.
「排灣族的琉璃珠若真是由其祖先所帶來的，移入年代應在西元一世紀以後」，陳奇祿主委認為。就算琉璃珠解答了排灣族入台的年代問題，其他各族也依然迷霧重重。