Sa Huynh culture (Van hoa Sa Huynh). During the 1920s, Sa Huynh burial mounds were discovered in an area extending the length of Central Vietnam, especially in the provinces of Quang Ngai and Binh Dinh, between hai Van Pass and eastern South.
Ceramic and rock items of Sa Huynh Culture.
The Sa Huynh culture lasted from the Early Bronze Age to the beginning of the Iron Age and may have been close to the Bronze Age cultures that flourished in the North (e.g., the Dong Son culture) during the same period, from the beginning of the second millennium to the end of the first millennium B.C. The Sa Huynh culture left glazed ceramic funerary urns containing pots, vessels, bowls, as well as tools of iron, ornamental objects such as pearls, glass beads, brass pieces, and human fragments.
Funerary urns are part of a culture that spans upper Laos, Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia. The Sa Huynh culture in Vietnam may be the origin of the ancient Malayo-Polynesian states located on the coastal plains of Central Vietnam during the first century A.D.
