Ref ID:	30442
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Nguyen Giang Hai,
Title:	Ancient metallurgy in Vietnam: an ethno-archaeological investigation
Date:	2005
Source:	Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association
Notes:	Proceedings of the 17th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Taipei, Taiwan 9 to 15 September 2002
Abstract:	The Bronze Age in Vietnam was a formative phase in social development constituting the change from Neolithic farming villages to Iron Age proto-states. New technologies such as metallurgy played a central role in this development. Vietnamese archaeologists have established indigenous metalworking in the Red River Valley as early as the Dong Dau period (between 2850 and 3250 uncal. BP). This paper describes the archaeological evidence for indigenous metalworking in Vietnam, along with the results of recent ethnographic research in three contemporary metal casting villages in Vietnam which provide new insights into the technology and the organisation of labour during this important period of Vietnamese prehistory.
Date Created:	11/29/2005
Volume:	25
Page Start:	121
Page End:	123