The 48 sets of remains unearthed in tombs in the Taichung area are the oldest trace of human activity found in central Taiwan. The most surprising discovery among them was the skeleton of a young mother looking at a child cradled in her arms.
“When it was unearthed, all the archaeologists and staff members were shocked. Because? Because the mother was looking at the baby in her hands,” said Chu Whei-lee, curator of the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Taiwan.
Excavation of the site began in May 2014 and took a year to complete. Carbon dating was used to determine the ages of the fossils, which included five children.
