Because of Taiwan's special history and geography, the island's several hundred thousand Aborigines, members of the Austronesian language group whose ancestors had lived on the island since ancient times, became a focus of research for the anthropology department.
因著台灣特殊的歷史、地理環境，自遠古時代就居住在台灣土地上的數十萬名南島語系原住民，就成為考古人類學系的研究園地。