In 2012, work on a highway in northeastern Taiwan led to a discovery. There, near a worksite, were the the remains of an ancient village, inhabited over a thousand years ago. Excavations began, and archaeologists assembled a picture of sophisticated people linked into a trading network that reached beyond Taiwan’s shores. The village is called the Hanben Site in Chinese. But it is also known as Blihun, a traditional name for the surrounding area that means “doorway” in the indigenous Atayal language. This year, artifacts unearthed from the site are the focus of an exhibit called “Blihun recovered, reconstructed, reappeared”. The exhibit is housed at the Lanyang Museum, a major museum also in northeastern Taiwan that focuses on local history and ecology. Here to walk us through the site as well as through the exhibit is Chu Cheng-yi, an archaeologist who worked extensively at Blihun.