tailieunhanh - Pre - Dong Son and Dong Son Cultural System and Issue of Early State in North Vietnam

For the past 50 years, Vietnamese cultural archaeologist have set up Pre - Dong SonCultures on Northern Vietnam in the systems of Phung Nguyen - Dong Dau - Go Mun in the Red River basin, Con Chan Tien (Cồn Chân Tiên) - Bai Man (Bái Man) - Quy Chu (Quỳ Chử) in the Ma (Mã) River basin, and Den Doi (Đền Đồi) - Ru Cat (Rú Cật) - Ru Tran (Rú Trăn) on the Lam River basin. These systems are considered to be the direct and main origin of the Dong Son Culture. The Dong Son Culture prosperously developed in many aspects of technology, economy, sociology and ideology, forming a material and spritual base for the formation of an early State - the Van Lang State and then Au Lac State as in the legends and annals. | HISTORY - ARCHAEOLOGY - ETHNOLOGY Pre - Dong Son and Dong Son Cultural System and Issue of Early State in North Vietnam Trinh Sinh* Abstract: For the past 50 years, Vietnamese cultural archaeologist have set up Pre - Dong SonCultures on Northern Vietnam in the systems of Phung Nguyen - Dong Dau - Go Mun in the Red River basin, Con Chan Tien (Cồn Chân Tiên) - Bai Man (Bái Man) - Quy Chu (Quỳ Chử) in the Ma (Mã) River basin, and Den Doi (Đền Đồi) - Ru Cat (Rú Cật) - Ru Tran (Rú Trăn) on the Lam River basin. These systems are considered to be the direct and main origin of the Dong Son Culture. The Dong Son Culture prosperously developed in many aspects of technology, economy, sociology and ideology, forming a material and spritual base for the formation of an early State the Van Lang State and then Au Lac State as in the legends and annals. Key words: Archaeology; Pre - Dong Son Culture; Dong Son Culture; the origin of Vietnamese; metallurgy. We are celebrating the 90th anniversary of Dong Son cultural discovery and research. It can be said that this culture is closely related to the question on the origin of Viet people and foundation of the early state in our country. For the past few years, there have been two tendencies in searching for the origin and civilization of Viet people. The first one considers all things of Viet people as the best and everything as original in Vietnam; it even assumes that civilizations started here and then spread to the North. The second one is opposite to the first one; it assumes that ancestors of Viet people migrated from the North and civilizations also spread from Guangdong and Fujian thousands years ago. What is the truth? It is, of course, necessary to do further research to find out an answer to this question, based on scientific grounds, especially archaeological evidences. 92 1. From Pre - Dong Sonto Dong Son One of the greatest archaeological achievements in our country for the past five decades is that we have set up .

• Lịch sử - Văn hoá
• Pre Dong Son and Dong Son Cultural System
• Pre Dong Son and Dong Son
• State in North Vietnam
• Culture prosperously developed
• Pre Dong Son Culture
• Dong Son Culture
• Dong Son culture in first ten centuries AD
• Dong Son bronze drum
• Dong Son vitality
• The fierce challenges of history
• The material and spiritual
• Ethnic groups of Viet – Muong languages
• Viet – Muong languages
• Ethnic minorities in Vietnam
• The indigenous development
• Language and culture
• The ancient Vietnamese civilization
• Bronze drum
• Dong Son drum
• Classification criteria
• Decorative pattern
• Bronze Age Data and New Perception
• Dien Bien Provinces
• Son La Provinces
• Lai Chau Provinces