Liu explains that carbon-14 dating has shown the oldest human artifacts discovered in Taiwan to be about 6,000-plus years old, and says that there has been a direct line of transmission from the island's prehistoric inhabitants to its present-day indigenes.
劉益昌表示，經碳 14 定年，台灣歷史約 6,000 多年，一路以來，史前人類到台灣原住民的文化發展一脈相承，沒有間斷。