Ancient village for two thousand years in Dong Thap Muoi

View of excavation of the Lo Brick relic

The initial excavation results in an ancient village named Lo Brick proved that people were present early here. Moreover, they themselves contributed to the creation of the famous Oc Eo culture in the Mekong Delta.

Excavation of Lo Gua ancient village in Vinh Tri commune, Vinh Hung district, Long An province took place from the end of November 2005.

Associate Professor Trinh Sinh, Vietnam Institute of Archeology, said that the researchers have obtained a large amount of artifacts, reflecting the whole life of a part of the ancient inhabitants of Dong Thap Muoi, including the pottery, fragments of containers, cookware are tightly packed in the cultural layer with a thickness of more than 1 meter. There are also many pieces of deer bones, fish bones, spearhead tools made from bone, animal horns, molded pieces of copper ax blades .

The excavation also shows an ancient landscape that is almost identical to today: deeply influenced by the Mekong River Delta river system. Adapting to the environment, the ancient people chose the floating mounds - which speak the language today " living with the flood " - it is the flooding season that is the harvest season of the local people for several thousand years until today.

The volume of excavated relics proved that ancient people rely on fishing mainly. But besides, they also have a long life of settlement with the evidence of pottery making, with a high degree of ceramic firing, large pottery making tools such as ceramic dams.

The ancient people also crafted stone rings for jewelry and mastered a hunting industry for large animals like deer in the forests around the region. After eating meat, they kept the pairs of horns for sawing, grinding, making delicate jewelry or making sharp tools.

Analyzing the design and pattern of pottery, scientists initially identified pottery in Lo Goong relic, quite similar to pottery in the sites of An Son, Go O Chua, Rach Noi . in the region. These cultural imprints show that this is one of the origins of the famous Oc Eo culture.

Nearly a century ago, when excavating the famous Oc Eo archaeological site in the Mekong Delta dating back several hundred years AD, with a high civilization level, many glass and gold jewelry beautiful, many coins proving to interact with many ancient countries in the region and the Western world, French scholar Luis Malleret did not understand where this civilization came from.

" Thanks to recent archaeological discoveries in the Mekong Delta, with sites such as Lo Gach, we can see that this famous culture originated from indigenous cultures that date earlier than a few. hundred years earlier, "Sinh said.

This excavation also shows a further cultural exchange - between the Southwestern region of Vietnam and the areas along the Mekong River in Thailand and the upper reaches of Yunnan China over two years ago. thousand years.