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English summary on page 56 as follows: Bronze poughshares of Co Loa type have been of the typical artefacts of Dongsonian culture. The author has conducted experimental casting of this kind of share which has been used on 8 different fields: high, dry, loose, and friable, humid, low, rice field, garden...The results have led to the following conclusions: -- Bronze ploughshares of Co Lao type had really been used in production. -- they were evidence for an agriculture using ploughs and draught animals. --They were fitted to wooden pedestals as such ploughs suited low and inundated fields for wet rice cultivation in the Red river delta.
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