Bacson culture
| Prehistoric cultures of Vietnam | |
|---|---|
| Old Stone Age | |
| Dieu culture | approx. 30,000 BC Chr. |
| Sơn Vi culture | 20,000–12,000 BC Chr. |
| Mesolithic | |
| Hòa Bình culture | 12,000-10,000 BC Chr. |
| Neolithic | |
| Bắc-Sơn culture | 9,000-5,000 BC Chr. |
| Quỳnh Văn culture | 3,000–1 BC Chr. |
| Đa Bút culture | 4,000-1,700 BC Chr. |
| Bronze age | |
| Phùng Nguyên culture | 2,000-1,500 BC Chr. |
| Đồng-Đậu culture | 1,500–1,000 BC Chr. |
| Gò-Mun culture | 1,000–700 BC Chr. |
| Đông-Sơn culture | 800 BC Chr. – 200 AD |
| Iron age | |
| Sa Huỳnh culture | 500 BC Chr. – 100 AD |
| Óc-Eo culture | A.D. 1-630 |
The Bacson culture flourished from around 9000 to 5000 BC. In the north of today's Vietnam . It is a Neolithic culture known from a little over 50 sites (as of 2004).
discovery
The Bacson culture was discovered by the French archaeologist Hemri Mansuy in the North Vietnamese province of Bac Son in the 1920s . He found rock roofs that had been used by hunters and gatherers and are on the north bank of the Red River .
Characteristic
Characteristic of this culture are cut stone axes and flat stones decorated with few parallel lines ( marques Bacsoniennes ). The food sources were apparently freshwater mollusks and forest snails ( Cyclophorus sp. ). The hunt for wild animals has also been documented, but plant cultivation has not yet been proven with certainty. There are indications of the use of pottery, as evidenced by rare finds of black vessels decorated with string patterns, making them the oldest pottery in North Vietnam. A few stone and clay figures were also found.
The dead were buried within the settlements. Shell jewelry and stone tools were sometimes given as gifts and sprinkled with ocher.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mansuy (1924)
literature
- Nguyen Khac Su: "The Neolitic Cultures of Vietnam". In: Southeast Asia, from prehistory to history (Eds .: Ian Glover and Peter Bellwood). London 2004, pp. 179-80. ISBN 0-415-29777-X .
- H. Mansuy: "Stations préhistoriques dans les cavernes du massif calcaire de Bac-Son (Tonkin)". BSGI Vol. 11/2 (1924).
Web links
- Beishan Wenhua (Bac-Sonian Culture) - Chinese