Dong Son culture

The Dong Son culture or the Lạc Việt culture (named for modern village Đông Sơn, a village in Thanh Hóa, Vietnam) was a Bronze Age culture in ancient Vietnam centred at the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam from 1000 BC until the first century AD.: 207  Vietnamese historians attribute the culture to the states of Văn Lang and Âu Lạc. Its influence spread to other parts of Southeast Asia, including Maritime Southeast Asia, from about 1000 BC to 1 BC.

Part of a series on
Prehistoric and ancient cultures of Vietnam
Paleolithic
Sơn Vi culture (20,000–12,000 BC)
Mesolithic
Hoabinhian (12,000–10,000 BC)
Neolithic
  • Bắc Sơn culture (10,000–8,000 BC)
  • Quỳnh Văn culture (8,000–6,000 BC)
  • Đa Bút culture (4,000–3,000 BC)
Bronze Age
Iron Age
  • Sa Huỳnh culture (1,000 BC–200 AD)
  • Óc Eo culture (1–630 AD)

The Dong Son people were skilled at cultivating rice, keeping water buffalos and pigs, fishing and sailing in long dugout canoes. They also were skilled bronze casters, which is evidenced by the Dong Son drum found widely throughout northern Vietnam and Guangxi in China.

To the south of the Dong Son culture was the Sa Huỳnh culture of the proto-Chams.

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