Whatever the case may be, it is clear that the Tamalin site is one of the various branches among the different cultures of the late neolithic. "From the contents of the culture, it appears to be closest to the Yingpu Culture of central Taiwan," wrote Liu Yi-chang in his 1987 report on Tamalin.
不管如何，大馬璘遺址屬於新石器晚期台灣各個不同文化裡的一支，「從文化內涵來看，它與台灣中部地區營埔文化較為接近」，一九八七由劉益昌撰寫完成的「大馬璘」發掘報告指出。