Sa Huỳnh culture
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The Sa Huỳnh culture: 211–217
Description
The site at Sa Huỳnh was discovered in 1909. Sa Huỳnh sites were rich in locally worked iron artefacts, typified by axes, swords, spearheads, knives and
The Sa Huỳnh culture cremated adults and buried them in jars covered with lids, a practice unique to the culture. Ritually broken offerings usually accompanied the jar burials. The culture is also typified by its unique ear ornaments featuring two-headed animals, believed by some to depict saola.[4] The ornaments were commonly made from jade (nephrite), but also made from glass. Bead ornaments were also commonly found in Sa Huynh burials, most commonly made from glass.
Trade network
The Sa Huỳnh culture showed evidence of an extensive trade network that existed between 500 BC to AD 1500, known as the Sa Huynh-Kalanay Interaction Sphere (named after the Sa Huỳnh culture and the
Timeline of Iron age
- Dates are approximate, consult particular article for details
- Prehistoric (or Proto-historic) Iron Age Historic Iron Age
Artifacts
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Bronze dagger
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Pottery vase
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Pottery fruit tray
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Pottery burial jar
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Jade penannular lingling-o
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Jade double-headed lingling-o
See also
- Austronesian peoples
- Plain of Jars
- Cát Tiên sanctuary
- Óc Eo
- Champa
- Buni culture
- Tabon Caves
Notes
- ^ Pronounced sar-HWING. Frequently misspelled as Sa Huyun culture
References
- ^ John N. Miksic, Geok Yian Goh, Sue O Connor - Rethinking Cultural Resource Management in Southeast Asia 2011 p. 251 "This site dates from the fifth to first century BCE and it is one of the earliest sites of the Sa Huỳnh culture in Thu Bồn Valley (Reinecke et al. 2002, 153–216); 2) Lai Nghi is a prehistoric cemetery richly equipped with iron tools and weapons, ..."
- ^ Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts (Bảo tàng mỹ thuật Việt Nam) 2000 "Right from the early history - before and after the Christian era - over twenty centuries ago, there was a cultural exchange among three major Centres Z Đông Sơn culture in the North, Sa Huỳnh culture in Central and south-eastern Nam Bộ ..."
- ISBN 9786167339443
- ^ deBuys, William (2015). The Last Unicorn: A Search For One of Earth's Rarest Creatures. p. 267.
- ^ S2CID 129020595.
- hdl:10125/19126.
- ^ Miksic, John N. (2003). Earthenware in Southeast Asia: Proceedings of the Singapore Symposium on Premodern Southeast Asian Earthenwares. Singapore: Singapore University Press, National University of Singapore.
- ISBN 0-521-56505-7
- Higham, Charles, Early Cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia, ISBN 1-58886-028-0