Discovered the stone ax processing factory dating back more than 5,000 years in Gia Lai

On the morning of November 27, at the Provincial Museum (Pleiku City), the Department of Culture and Sports and Tourism, the Provincial Museum in collaboration with the Archaeological Institute organized the preliminary report of excavation results of Ga 7 Village. (Ia Booong commune, Chu Prong district).

Participants were representatives of the Institute of Archeology, leaders, officials and employees of the departments and departments of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Provincial Museum; representatives of departments, agencies, provincial unions and the Office of Culture and Information of Chu Prong district.

Some objects discovered at Chicken Village 7 are displayed at the preliminary report of excavation results.(Photo: Phuong Linh).

Here, Associate Prof. Dr. Nguyen Khac Su preliminarily reported the results of excavation of Ga 7 Village (Ia Boong commune, Chu Prong district). Accordingly, Ga 7 Village relics were discovered by officials of the Institute of Archeology and Gia Lai Museum in April 2015. In 2016, after surveying around Ga village, finding Ga 7 Village had the same characteristics as Chicken Village 4, 5, and 6 relics but the strata were well preserved.

Through excavation, the researchers discovered 234 objects divided into 2 groups: production tools group with 205 artifacts (accounting for 87.60%) (including: axes with shoulders, axes grinding blades, tools disk image, oval tool, millet, stone seat, .); group of waste products and raw materials including all kinds of scrap and material stone with 29 objects (accounting for 12.40%). Based on the nature and characteristics of monuments and relics, the researchers concluded that Chicken 7 Village is considered as a relic of a stone-processing workshop of about 5,000-5,500 years old.

The excavation of Ga 7 Village has added a type of stone ax processing workshop (oval) for the history of Gia Lai. Along with the factory specializing in making oval axes bearing the technical mark of Hoa Binh late Thon Tam (Dak Nong), Buon Kieu (Dak Lak), Eo Bong (Phu Yen), Gia Canh (Dong Nai), Bau Du (Quang Nam) ), Chicken Village 7 creates a uniform appearance for all Central Highlands and Central Vietnam plains. At the same time, help supplement the compilation of historical period after Hoa Binh culture in the southern region of Hoa Binh culture itself.