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[[File:Tambour-song-da2.jpg|right|thumb|[[Dong Son drum]] from [[Sông Đà (Mường Lay)|Sông Đà]], Mường Lay, Vietnam. Dong Son II culture. Mid-1st millennium BC. Bronze.]]
The '''Dong Son culture''', '''Dongsonian culture''',<ref>{{Cite book|author=[[Takahito, Prince Mikasa]]|url=https://wwwbooks.google.com/books/edition/Cultural_and_Economic_Relations_Between/yIlwYljYDWUC?hlid=en&gbpv=0yIlwYljYDWUC&bsqq=dongsonian%20culture|title=Cultural and Economic Relations Between East and West Sea Routes|date=1988|publisher=Harrassowitz|isbn=9783447026987|pages=180|language=en}}</ref><ref name=wales13>{{Cite book|author=[[Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales]]|url=https://wwwbooks.google.com/books/edition/Ancient_South_East_Asian_Warfare/SVHKEAAAQBAJ?hlid=en&gbpv=1SVHKEAAAQBAJ|title=Ancient South-East Asian Warfare|date=2023|publisher=How Academics|isbn=9789395522168|pages=13|language=en}}</ref> or the '''Lạc Việt''' culture (named for modern village [[Dong Son village|Đông Sơn]], a village in [[Thanh Hóa]], Vietnam) was a [[Bronze Age]] culture in [[History of Vietnam#Early kingdoms|ancient Vietnam]] centred at the [[Geography of Vietnam#Red River Delta|Red River Valley]] of [[northern Vietnam]] from 1000 BC until the first century AD.<ref name="Higham">Higham, C., 2014, Early Mainland Southeast Asia, Bangkok: River Books Co., Ltd., {{ISBN|9786167339443}}</ref>{{rp|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.<ref>[http://www.littlevietnamtours.com.vn/about_vietnam/vietnam_culture/dong_son_culture.php Vietnam Tours] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130426081801/http://www.littlevietnamtours.com.vn/about_vietnam/vietnam_culture/dong_son_culture.php |date=2013-04-26 }}</ref><ref>Nola Cooke, Tana Li, James Anderson - The Tongking Gulf Through History - Page 46 2011 -"Nishimura actually suggested the Đông Sơn phase belonged in the late metal age, and some other Japanese scholars argued that, contrary to the conventional belief that the Han invasion ended Đông Sơn culture, Đông Sơn artifacts, ..."</ref><ref>Vietnam Fine Arts Museum 2000 "... the bronze cylindrical jars, drums, Weapons and tools which were sophistically carved and belonged to the World famous Đông Sơn culture dating from thousands of years; the Sculptures in the round, the ornamental architectural Sculptures...."</ref>
The Dong Son people were skilled at cultivating [[rice]], keeping [[water buffalo]]s and [[pig]]s, fishing and sailing in long [[dugout canoe]]s. They also were skilled [[lost-wax casting|bronze casters]], which is evidenced by the [[Dong Son drum]] found widely throughout northern Vietnam and [[Guangxi]] in China.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=SOLHEIM |first=WILHELM G. |date=1988 |title=A Brief History of the Dongson Concept |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42928186 |journal=Asian Perspectives |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=23–30 |jstor=42928186 |issn=0066-8435}}</ref>
===Bibliography===
* {{Cite proceedingsconference |last=Alves |first=Mark |date=2019-05-10 |title=Data from Multiple Disciplines Connecting Vietic with the Dong Son Culture |conference=Contact Zones and Colonialism in Southeast Asia and China's South (~221 BCE - 1700 CE) |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333720204 |doi=10.13140/RG.2.2.32110.05446}}
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