In 1968 Professor Sung Wen-hsun of the Department of Archeology and Anthropology at National Taiwan University led a group of students to Pahsien Cave near Changping Village, and discovered the earliest trace of human activities found on the island of Taiwan up to this time. The Changping culture dates back more than 15,000 years to the Paleolithic Age.
民國五十七年，台大考古系的宋文薰教授帶領學生在長濱鄉的風景區八仙洞附近，發現了舊石器時代的「長濱文化」，這是目前台灣出土的最古人類遺蹟，可上溯至一萬五千年前，台東在考古界一夕成名。