Sa Huynh culture

Sa Huynh culture

Sa Huynh culture is an archaeological culture of the Metal Age, formed at the peak of civilization in the Iron Age dating from 500 BC, ending in the second century AD, originating from formed and developed from the previous pre-Sa Huynh cultures of the Early Bronze and Middle Bronze Ages. The distribution of Sa Huynh Culture is in Central Vietnam, the North intersects with Dong Son Culture in Quang Binh, the South intersects with Dong Nai Culture in Binh Thuan, the West is the edge of the Central Highlands, the valley area. East of Truong Son, the east reaches out to the island near the shore. The basic burial formula of the Sa Huynh Culture is tombs with jars buried in large cemeteries. At the same time, jar tombs and earthen tombs are also found at burial sites of the Sa Huynh Culture. Typical jewelry of the Sa Huynh Culture are two-headed animal earrings, three-pronged earrings, agate beads, bracelets made from gems, glass, and sea mollusk shells. Glass making and iron smithing are outstanding achievements of Sa Huynh civilization, playing an important role in promoting the development of Sa Huynh society. Sa Huynh culture has extensive exchanges with other cultures in mainland and island Southeast Asia. Sa Huynh cultural special national relic is a type of archaeological relic, with 6 relic sites including:. An Khe Lagoon, An Khe Creek - Cua Lo River, Phu Khuong, Long Thanh, Thanh Duc, Champa Relics Complex. The two locations Long Thanh and Phu Khuong have been decided by the Ministry of Culture and Information to be ranked as National Historical and Cultural Monuments. 1. Location of Long Thanh relic. Long Thanh relic site (also known as Go Ma Vuong) belongs to Long Thanh 2 residential group, Pho Thanh ward, Duc Pho town. Long Thanh is a pre-Sa Huynh relic of the early Bronze Age, the direct origin of the development of the Sa Huynh Culture of the early Iron Age. Long Thanh relic stands out with its egg-shaped and spherical jar coffins, with lids that are covered with bowls or pot tombs with two pots buried face down. The collection of artifacts features cat tongue-shaped stone picks, buffalo tooth-shaped stones, and nephrite gemstone jewelry including 4-point earrings, scarf-shaped earrings, bamboo-shaped chains, and shaped chains. The pillar is elaborately and delicately crafted. The Long Thanh artifact collection is notable for its ceramics. Long Thanh's ceramic containers are diverse in type and rich in pattern. Long Thanh relics are characterized by an early period, representing a cultural stage of the early bronze age progressing to the early iron stage of the Sa Huynh Culture. 2. Location of Phu Khuong Relics. Phu Khuong relic is a very large Sa Huynh Culture jar tomb, distributed on a large sandy plain of Sa Huynh sand dunes along An Khe lagoon, in Phu Long village, Pho Khanh commune, Duc Pho town. Relics belonging to the early Iron Sa Huynh period, jar tombs are always buried in clusters on sand dunes along the coast, next to freshwater lagoons and therefore somewhere nearby are the residential relics of the owners of the jar tombs. Phu Khuong. Inside the jars are many burial items, some jars contain human remains, burial relics in the jars include pots, bowls, ceramic vases, iron objects, jewelry including earrings, glass bracelets and semi-stones. precious. Phu Khuong relics are characterized by precious stone jewelry, which are dark red beads made of agate stone with many shapes such as flat squares, diamonds, diamonds, hexagonal polyhedrons, and bowls. sense. 3. Location of Thanh Duc Relics. Thanh Duc relic is the tomb site of Sa Huynh Culture jars distributed on the Sa Huynh sand dunes, between one side is the sea and the other side is the salt water lagoon of Tan Diem salt flat area, belonging to Thanh Duc residential group, Pho Thanh ward. , Duc Pho town. Thanh Duc jar tomb area has a very large number of burial jars, if we count the total number of jar tombs excavated, it reaches 175 jars. The jar contains burial relics such as bronze objects, iron tools, nephrite stone jewelry and earrings, and many ceramic containers. Thanh Duc bronzes have bronze rattles, this is evidence of exchange between Sa Huynh Culture and Dong Son Culture. Especially in Thanh Duc, there are bracelets made of copper and iron combined. This is a unique relic found for the first time in the Sa Huynh Cultural relic. 4. Champa relic complex in Sa Huynh space. The Champa relic complex in Sa Huynh space includes: Mot Mountain Tower, Go Da Tower, Stone Bridge, Champa Temple (Temple of Tho Chu), Champa inscriptions, Champa well system, ancient stone folding road (Sa Huynh - Champa - Vietnamese), Champa ancient irrigation ditch system. Regarding the current status: Champa towers such as Mount Mot tower only have ruins of the base of the tower left. Go Da Tower has traces of its base located next to Thien Ly route. Ancient stone roads, ancient irrigation ditches, and ancient stone bridges are still intact. 5. An Khe Lagoon. An Khe Lagoon is located next to National Highway 1A, in Pho Khanh commune, Duc Pho town, Quang Ngai province. An Khe Lagoon has outstanding value as the largest freshwater lake next to the sea in Vietnam, a transition place for terrestrial and marine ecosystems, coexisting in an overall ecosystem of freshwater, brackish water, and freshwater. salinity and agricultural production, playing an important role in the environment and socio-economic development of the region. 6. An Khe creek, Cua Lo river. To the east of An Khe lagoon, there is a small narrow creek draining into the sea with an area of ​​58.5 hectares. At the end of the creek is the lagoon mouth - local people often call it Cua Lo, this mouth is almost closed all year round. An Khe lagoon, creek and Cua Lo river are associated with the formation of Sa Huynh Culture, and are the basic natural conditions for the formation of Sa Huynh Culture, Champa Culture and Vietnamese Culture relics in the surrounding area. dress. Source: Duc Pho town cultural and sports information center

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