TAILIEUCHUNG - Interaction between Humans and Environment in Trang An, Ninh Binh from 30.000 Years to Date

The cultural diversity and the traditional customs of Trang An ancient residents in cave occupation, land use and sea use adaptive to the marine transgression and regression completely deserve an outstanding univeral example on the Culture and Nature of humankind. The marine region of Vietnam is currently under the influence of a rising sea level. A lesson of the response to the marine and island environment of Trang An prehistoric people must have been valuable to us today. | Vietnam Social Sciences, (172) - 2016 POLITICS - ECONOMICS Interaction between Humans and Environment in Trang An, Ninh Binh from Years to Date Nguyen Khac Su * Abstract: Trang An (Tràng An) Landscape Complex, Ninh Binh, has been inscribed on to the List of World Heritages by UNESCO as a World Cultural and Natural Heritage, the first “double” property of Vietnam. The archaeological records found here has indicated that Trang An is an intact annal, which is outstanding with the environmental changes and human responses over the past 30,000 years. The human adaptation is best manifest in settlement, subsistence, behaviour and manufacture of labouring tools, the emergence of pottery; contributing to a view on a past structural transformation, a local landscape change and a faunal - floral variation over the time. The cultural diversity and the traditional customs of Trang An ancient residents in cave occupation, land use and sea use adaptive to the marine transgression and regression completely deserve an outstanding univeral example on the Culture and Nature of humankind. The marine region of Vietnam is currently under the influence of a rising sea level. A lesson of the response to the marine and island environment of Trang An prehistoric people must have been valuable to us today. Key words: Humans; environment; World heritage; Trang An; prehistory. 1. Trang An Landscape Complex, Ninh Binh Trang An Landscape Complex, Ninh Binh has been recognized as a World Cultural and Natural Heritage by UNESCO. This is the first “double” heritage site of Vietnam. Visiting Trang An, tourists contemplate not only the gigantic tower karst landscape in the final stages of karst evolution, but also cone karst, tower karst, depressions, poljes, swamp notches, submerged caves, subterranean rivers and caves with diverse speleothems in the landscape complex. Nowhere in the world witnesses the transitional cone karst landscape as in Trang An, where they are linked with .

• Lịch sử - Văn hoá
• Interaction between Humans and Environment
• World Cultural and Natural Heritage
• The traditional customs
• The Culture and Nature of humankind
• Rising sea level