Beginning in the Japanese Era, they began sticking their noses in every nook and cranny and turning over every stone in our ancient tribal villages, putting numbers on the tools, utensils, shells, charcoal, and stone coffins they dug up. Then after painstaking analysis that took geology into account, they were able to make a general outline about the age and environment in which we lived.
從日據時期開始，他們就在我們曾經住過的聚落裡東挖西找，把挖到的工具、用具、貝殼、木炭、石棺等編個號，然後配合地質學，抽絲剝繭地分析，竟然將我們這些東部史前人的生存年代和環境，大致弄出了一個輪廓。