Archaeologist Chang Kuang-chih argues that Tapenkeng Culture may have been an old culture spread widely in southeast coastal China. It may have been one of the two agricultural cultures that developed in parallel in China at that time, the other being the familiar Yangshao Culture which is mainly distributed around the midstream portions of the Yellow River.
考古學家張光直認為，大坌坑文化很可能是分佈於中國東南沿海的一個古老文化，而且是中國兩群平行發展的早期農業文化，另一群則是一般人熟知的仰韶文化，主要分佈在黃河中游。