Gò Mun culture

The Gò Mun culture (c. 1,100-800 BC) was a culture of Bronze Age northern Vietnam.[1]

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Prehistoric and ancient cultures of Vietnam
Paleolithic
Sơn Vi culture (20,000–12,000 BC)
Mesolithic
Hoabinhian (12,000–10,000 BC)
Neolithic
Bronze Age
Iron Age

The culture is known for pottery, weapons and many jade objects.[2]

  • Gò Mun culture pottery fragment
    Gò Mun culture pottery fragment
  • Gò Mun culture pottery fragments
    Gò Mun culture pottery fragments
  • Gò Mun culture bronze spearheads and one arrowhead
    Gò Mun culture bronze spearheads and one arrowhead
  • Gò Mun culture bronze fishhooks
    Gò Mun culture bronze fishhooks

References
  1. Terry E. Miller, Sean Williams The Garland handbook of Southeast Asian music 2008 Page 23 "Around 1500 B.C., the Phùng Nguyên culture was replaced by the Đồng Đậu culture, associated not only with a different type ... Around 1100 B.C., the Đồng Đậu culture was succeeded by the Gò Mun culture, which lasted until about the fifth century B.C. There has been much discussion about the historical source of metallurgy in Southeast Asia. Before the excavations ..
  2. Christopher J. Frape Burnished beauty: the art of stone in early Southeast Asia 2000 "GO MUN CULTURE (c. 1100-700 BC) The jade repertoire of the Go Mun Culture, by comparison with the previous Dong Dau, explodes with a huge variety of highly imaginative objects, the majority of which are related to weaponry, tools ..."
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