Sanjian Elementary School

Sanjian Elementary serves Sanjian Village on Taitung's remote northern coast — a village once shared, at different times, by Siraya, Amis, and Kavalan peoples. What makes this small rural school truly remarkable is its location: Sanjian Village is home to the Baxian (Eight Immortals) Caves, a series of sea caves where archaeologists uncovered, between 1968 and 1969, stone tools and other evidence of the Changbin Culture — Taiwan's oldest confirmed prehistoric human culture, dated to roughly 30,000 to 15,000 years ago. Students here grow up literally down the road from one of the most significant archaeological discoveries in Taiwan's history.

三間國小服務位於臺東最北段偏遠海岸的三間村——這座村落在不同時期曾是西拉雅族、阿美族與噶瑪蘭族共同生活的地方。而讓這所小校格外特別的是它的所在地：三間村正是「八仙洞」的所在地，考古學家於民國57至58年（1968至1969年）在此海蝕洞群中發現石器等遺物，證實了「長濱文化」的存在——台灣目前所知最古老、確認年代約三萬至一萬五千年前的史前人類文化。這裡的學生，就在這項台灣考古史上最重要的發現旁邊長大。