Phùng Nguyên culture

The Phung Nguyen culture was a prehistoric culture in contemporary Vietnam and existed from about 2000 to 1500 BC with her ​​the Bronze Age began in Vietnam. It is named after the find site Phung Nguyen.

The Phung Nguyen culture is known by about 50 settlements, which are one to three acres in size on average. Phung - Nguyen is the best place excavated Fund. He was about three acres in size. The settlements are usually on a hill near a river. Staple food was rice cultivation. There is only indirect evidence of metal in the form of waste metal processing. Spindles demonstrate weaving, bone harpoons occupy the hunt. Most tools have been made ​​of stone. There were numerous rings of jade. Their function is controversial. There were clay beads.

The ceramic is richly decorated with carvings. There are usually also intricate and merging into one another abstract pattern. Based on the ceramic decoration, the Phung Nguyen culture was divided into different phases.