An Son and the Neolithic of Southern Vietnam

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dc.contributor.authorBellwood, Peter
dc.contributor.authorOxenham, Marc
dc.contributor.authorHoang, Bui Chi
dc.contributor.authorDzung, Nguyen Kim
dc.contributor.authorWillis, Anna
dc.contributor.authorSarjeant, Carmen
dc.contributor.authorPiper, Phillip
dc.contributor.authorMatsumura, Hirofumi
dc.contributor.authorTanaka, Katsunori
dc.contributor.authorBeavan-Athfield, Nancy
dc.contributor.authorHigham, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorManh, Nguyen Quoc
dc.contributor.authorKinh, Dang Ngoc
dc.contributor.authorKien, Nguyen Khanh Trung
dc.contributor.authorHuong, Vo Thanh
dc.contributor.authorBich, Vang Ngoc
dc.contributor.authorQuy, Tran Thi Kim
dc.contributor.authorThao, Nguyen Phuong
dc.contributor.authorCampos, Fredeliza
dc.contributor.authorSato, Yo-Ichiro
dc.contributor.authorCuong, Nguyen Lan
dc.contributor.authorAmano, Noel
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-07T23:02:58Z
dc.date.available2013-10-07T23:02:58Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractBetween 4500 and 3500 years ago, partially intrusive Neolithic populations in the riverine basins of mainland Southeast Asia began to form mounded settlements and to develop economies based on rice cultivation, fishing, hunting, and the domestication of animals, especially pigs and dogs. A number of these sites have been excavated in recent years and they are often large mounds that can attain several meters in depth, comprising successive layers of alluvial soil brought in periodically to serve as living floors. The site of An Son is of this type and lies in a small valley immediately north of the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam. Excavated on five occasions since 1978, and most recently in 2009, it was occupied from the late third into the late second millennium b.c. An Son has produced evidence that attests the domestication of pigs and dogs in all layers apart (perhaps) from the most basal one, which was not investigated in 2009, together with the growing of rice of the subspecies Oryza sativa japonica, of Chinese Neolithic origin. The oldest pottery has simple incised and punctate zoned decoration with parallels in central Thailand, especially in the basal phases at Nong Nor and Khok Phanom Di. From its middle and later occupation phases (1800–1200 b.c.), An Son has produced a number of supine extended burials with finely decorated pottery grave goods that carry some unique forms, especially vessels with wavy or serrated rims. The An Son burials represent a Neolithic population that expressed a mixture of both indigenous Hoabinhian and more northerly (probably Neolithic southern Chinese) cranial and dental phenotypes, perhaps representing a likely ancestral population for some of the modern Austroasiatic speaking populations of mainland Southeast Asia.
dc.format.extent32 pages
dc.identifier.issn0066-8435 (Print)
dc.identifier.issn1535-8283 (E-ISSN)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/30677
dc.language.isoen-US
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu)
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVolume 50
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNumber 1 & 2
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
dc.subjectVietnam
dc.subjectNeolithic
dc.subjecthuman biological history
dc.subjectprehistoric food production
dc.subjectprehistoric pottery
dc.titleAn Son and the Neolithic of Southern Vietnam
dc.typearticle
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