As early as the 1960s, Professor Chang Kwang-chih noted that Botanical Garden archaeological finds included pottery implements featuring a diamond pattern remarkably similar to one previously identified with the southeast coast of mainland China, suggesting a cultural system recently transplanted to Taiwan.
早在 1960 年代，張光直教授根據出土遺跡發現，植物園文化含有極類似大陸東南沿海才有的方格厚陶器物，有可能是不久前才從別的地方來到台灣生根定居的文化體系。