Prehistoric and ancient cultures of Vietnam |
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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 |
Phùng Nguyên culture (2,000–1,500 BC) |
Đồng Đậu culture (1,500–1,000 BC) |
Gò Mun culture (1,000–800 BC) |
Đông Sơn culture (1,000 BC–100 AD) |
Iron Age |
Sa Huỳnh culture (1,000 BC–200 AD) |
Óc Eo culture (1–630 AD) |
The Đa Bút culture (5000-1000 BC) is the name given to a period of the early Neolithic Age in Vietnam, after the name of the site in Vĩnh Lộc district. The Đa Bút site was excavated in the 1930s by , and is a neolithic cemetery distinguished by shell middens. The site has recently been carbon-dated to 5000 BC. The people at the site were hunter-gatherers, and fishermen, with evidence of farming both of livestock and paddy rice. Other studies have given the site a slightly later date and found no evidence of food production.