The country''s leading archaeologists met over the
weekend during a 3-day conference held in Hue City, which included
announcements describing new archaeological discoveries.
An archeological team from Viet Nam Archaeology
Institute found five stone axes believed to come from the 3,000-year-old
Sa Huynh Culture at a Khue Bac communal house garden in the central
city.
Scientists from the Viet Nam Archaeology Institute have found more
traces of early human settlement in the Dong Van karst plateau in
northern Ha Giang Province.
The archaeologists from the Viet Nam Archaeology Institute have
unearthed traces of a kitchen at the Tan Long Ha Military Post in the
central province of Quang Ngai.
Six corpses, dating to 6,000 years ago, have been unearthed in a cave in
Ngan Son District of northern Bac Kan Province, according to scientists
from the Viet Nam Archaeology Institute.
The Thang Long royal citadel relics require further excavations, which
may take one to two more centuries, according to Prof Tong Trung Tin,
director of Viet Nam Archaeology Institute.
A bronze drum from the Dong Son culture (2,000BC-200AD) has been found
at a road construction site in the northern province of Bac Kan,
according to researchers from the Viet Nam Archaeology Institute.
Archaeologists in the north-eastern province of Ha
Giang stopped by on some very old relatives recently, when they stumbled
across caves thought to have housed humans 20,000 years ago.
