1 published discovery from Taiwan — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.
Global Finds has 1 find from Taiwan, a famous historical find. It is filed under jewellery. It is the Peinan jade earring, Taiwan, made about 850 to 350 BC.
The law: In Taiwan, as in most countries, archaeological finds are protected by national heritage law: report anything old or unusual to the national heritage authority, and never dig at a known site or export a find without permission.
In 1980 railway works at Taitung in Taiwan uncovered a prehistoric cemetery of slate coffins. In 1984 archaeologists found in one coffin a carved jade earring of two human figures carrying an animal on their heads. It is now one of Taiwan's national treasures.
