TAILIEUCHUNG - Historical – cultural process of prehistoric residents in the mountainous area of Nghe An province
The mountainous area of Nghe An province is a place which contains numerous prehistoric cave sites, attesting to an early human occupation around 60,000 years ago. The mountainous area of Nghe An is also the place where a number of late Paleolithic and early Neolithic sites came into being, contributing to the formation of the Da But, Quynh Van and Bau Tro cultures. | Historical – Cultural Process of Prehistoric Residents in the Mountainous Area of Nghe An Province Nguyen Khac Su1 1 Institute of Archaeology, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. Email: nguyen_khacsu@ Received: Oct. 10, 2016. Accepted: Nov. 14, 2016. Abstract: The mountainous area of Nghe An province is a place which contains numerous prehistoric cave sites, attesting to an early human occupation around 60,000 years ago. The mountainous area of Nghe An is also the place where a number of late Paleolithic and early Neolithic sites came into being, contributing to the formation of the Da But, Quynh Van and Bau Tro cultures. In the post-Hoabinhian period, the ancient people of the mountains of Nghe An still maintained the Hoabinhian traditions such as living in caves, doing hunting - gathering, particularly collecting molluscan species. In the early Bronze Age, some upland groups of residents expanded their occupation to the river terrace and practiced the sedentary agricultural activities, contributing to the process of exchange, integration and acculturation in the Northern Central region of Vietnam. Keywords: Prehistoric culture, historical process, Nghe An. 1. Introduction Nghe An is a province located in Vietnam’s Northern Central region, which covers a largest area among the country’s provinces (16, km 2) and is full of well-known prehistoric cultural hallmarks. In 2015, the Institute of Archaeology discovered 21 new caves and re-examined more than 20 other sites [10]. These are an important source of historical materials that help look into the historical – cultural 54 process of the local residential communities on this land in the prehistoric period from the Paleolithic through the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. 2. The Paleolithic The late Paleolithic of the upland of Nghe An is characterised by two phases: the formative phase of the early modern human beings and the phase of the late modern ones. Nguyen Khac Su . The formative phase
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