| Abstract: |
All pottery types from the Phung Nguyen to the Dong Son cultures were made from clay tempered with sand, schist limestone . . . the choice of raw materials and mixture of clay-temper were implemented by experience, by habit, by estimation, by eyes, by hand without any accurate measuring. Therefore, pottery were varied in colour, characterising each period, each area. This is also the base for us to have classified pottery into fine pottery, coarse pottery, black pottery, red pottery, mouldily-white pottery. The burnt brown appearing in the late Dong Son period and existing in the three regional types (Red River valley, Ma River valley, and Ca River valley) expresses the standard of choice and preparation of raw material and firing at the high level. Pottery from the Phung Nguyen - Dong Son cultures was formed with two techniques: forming on the wheel for pottery of large size and forming by hand for pottery of small size.
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