Collect 50,000 artifacts from Giong Noi - Ben Tre site

Through 3 consecutive excavations of Giong Floating, Ben Tre (from 2004-2006), archaeologists have collected a total of 50,000 artifacts including ceramics, kilns, burning stoves, human bones, Vietnamese teeth. animals, bones, teeth .

The above information was given at the scientific conference " Giong Noi and Ben Tre archaeological site in 2006" organized by Ben Tre Museum in collaboration with Vietnam Institute of Archeology.

Ax, two stone and opaque grinding tables (from left to right)
(Photo: TTO)

Giong Floating site was unearthed for the first time at the end of 2003. According to archaeologists, this is an ancient village with many residents who were ancient Vietnamese settlers, located on a floating sand hill in an area. The vast coastal swamp had existed over 2,500 years ago, ie the period of the pre-Oc Eo culture, the post-stone period to the early Iron Age.

Prof. Dr. Le Xuan Diem, Deputy Director of the Vietnam Institute of Archeology said that Giong Noi - Ben Tre relic has caused great surprise, interesting, unexpected and attractive for the entire archaeological research world. study Vietnam.This is really an archaeological - cultural relic - with great cultural value, because it has large reserves of relics in a diverse cultural function, many pictures, many looks and many weaknesses. New, strange element, first known.