The Niaosung Culture () was an

archaeological culture An archaeological culture is a recurring assemblage of types of artifacts, buildings and monuments from a specific period and region that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society. The connection between thes ...

in southern

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. It distributed around the region of

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and

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. The culture existed in the

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of Taiwan island. Some evidences suggested that Niaosung Culture was directly relative to the

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, an aboriginal tribe which is still living in this area. There is a set of several

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s formed the culture, such as the Niaosung Site (蔦松遺址), Futingchin Site (覆頂金遺址), Hsiliao Site (西寮遺址) and Kanhsi Site (看西遺址). Some were discovered in the archaeological research excavations, and some in other works such as digging

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s or building factories. These sites had been excavated out potteries or

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Archaeological cultures in Taiwan Iron Age cultures of Asia Tainan Kaohsiung Archaeological cultures of East Asia {{Taiwan-hist-stub

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