Ch'angpin, site of the earliest culture and located near Taitung on the southeast coast, was discovered in 1968 by a group of students led by Professor Sung Wenhuang of National Taiwan University.
以年代來看，已知的最早期遺址，可能要算是在台東發掘到的那一個了。這個考古學家稱之為「長濱文化」的遺址，被發現是十分偶然的。民國五十七年，台灣大學考古系的宋文薰教授，帶領學生到台東縣長濱鄉的風景區八仙洞附近作遺址調查。