Dong Son culture
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The Dong Son culture is a prehistoric Bronze age culture that was centered at the Red River Valley of Vietnam. The culture also flourished in other parts of Southeast Asia, including the Indo-Malayan Archipelago from about 1000 to 1 BC.
The Dong Son people were skilled at cultivating rice, keeping buffalos and pigs, fishing and sailing with long dug-out canoes. They also were skilled bronze casters, as can be seen in the famous Dong Son drums, which have been found widely in Southeast Asia.
The Dong Son culture is linked to the Tibeto-Burman culture, the Dai culture in Yunnan and Laos, the Mon-Khmer cultures and the culture associated with the Plain of Jars in Laos. Similar artifacts have been found in Cambodia along the Mekong river dating back to the 4th millennium B.C.
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