When did someone live in Taiwan Province Province?

Changbin, Taidong, Taiwan Province Province

The earliest human settlement was discovered in Taiwan Province Province, about 50,000 years ago.

According to research, Changbin culture is the oldest culture found in Taiwan Province Province so far. It is a social society that lives on fishing, hunting and gathering. It has a small population and mainly lives in caves and rock shadows by the sea. It knows nothing about farming, animal husbandry and pottery making, but it knows how to make stone tools by beating with fire. Its stone tools were made in a way similar to prehistoric artifacts in southeastern China at that time, and its life depended on hunting and gathering natural food. Distributed in the eastern part of Taiwan Province Province and the coastal areas of the peninsula. This culture was discovered in 1968 by the archaeological team of Taida University in Baxiandong, Changbin Township, Taitung County, and was named after Changbin according to the general principles of archaeology.

The age of Changbin culture can be pushed back to about 50 thousand years ago at the earliest, and it didn't disappear until more than 5 thousand years ago. This is the late paleolithic period.