Professor Sung points out that Peinan farming tools, including stone hoes, sickles and knives for digging and reaping, indicate the presence of slash-and-burn agriculture, a kind still practiced in remote areas of Indonesia and Malaysia.
宋文薰教授指出，卑南發現的農具，證明當時農耕是使用石斧及石鋤，來闢地或翻土耕作，用石刀和石鐮收穫穀類，這種耕作方式，直到最近都還可以在印尼和南洋等較偏僻的島上看到。