Discovering the world-shaking factory in Vietnam

In the territory of Vietnam, the oldest factory in the world has been found dating back more than 80,000 years of ancient Vietnamese residents.

Affirming the existence of the Old Stone Age in Southeast Asia

A group of archaeologists from the Institute of Archeology - Ethnology of Novosibirsk, Russian Academy of Sciences and Archaeological Institute, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences have discovered a truth that shakes the scientific world on a merit The original man's workshop.

According to archaeological evidence, nearly 800,000 BC on this land had manipulated the original man's factory form.

Talking to the PV, on June 8, Dr. Nguyen Gia Doi - Deputy Director of the Institute of Archeology, Head of the Stone Age Research Department said: "The exact name of this relic is an old stone monument in the beginning , with predicted tectite fossils with ages from 77,000 to 80,000 years and stone artifacts such as hand axes and chipped tools.

This means that upstream of the Ba River at An Khe is the habitat of the ancient people community, over 70,000 years ago. This is also temporarily considered as the oldest opening landmark that now knows about the emergence of people and their cultural heritage in Vietnamese territory. "

Besides, according to Mr. To, 50 years ago, we also unearthed some old stoneware at Do mountain (Thanh Hoa), dating from about 30,000,000, 40,000 years. But with the relics in An Khe and Gia Lai, it is the oldest date of the ancient people in Vietnam.

The stripped piece was discovered in An Khe and Gia Lai communes.

Moreover, the stone tools found in Gia Lai are in the soil layer, but in Do mountain only discovered on the surface, so the evidence on the stratum is uncertain. In Gia Lai, it developed in a strong cultural stratum, along with other stones.

This affirms that there have been the appearance of an ancient Vietnamese community of 80,000 years ago.

Experts believe that the combination of tools and dates of An Khe relic is equivalent to the period of Homo erectus - one of the direct ancestors of modern people in the world. These are also rare relics in Asia.

Therefore, Mr. Tu affirmed: "The discovery of the old stone monument in the above period means not only in the national scope and also the pride of the whole Southeast Asia region.

It has a hinge meaning in the awareness of the existence of the Old Stone Age in Southeast Asia, supplementing the point that scientists have not been able to clarify for many years.

Because before that, in a long time existed Western views soon appeared hand axes, showing the progress and dynamics of the people, and the East always reserved the rough pebble tool, no closing What to contribute to humanity.

However, the findings of the double-sided tools and hand axes at An Khe not only reject this wrong view, but also add materials to the distribution of the emergence and evolution of humanity in the world. ".

The discovery of the above relic will change the age of research on Vietnamese human history to be older, previously 70-80 thousand years ago, now can be up to 1 million years. In terms of fine art stone, further confirmed the appearance of hand axes in Vietnam as well as in Southeast Asia.

This is a different industry than the raw tool industry, formerly a rough tool, now more meaningful hand axes appear.

Proposal for certification of special national monuments

Speaking more clearly about the process of conducting archeology over time, Mr. Cho said, since mid-2014, Vietnamese - Russian archaeologists have unearthed Go Da and Roc Tung relics (belonging to An Khe town, province). Gia Lai).

A piece of tectite fossil is published.

The team found 2 hand axes in the Relic and Big Relic ruins, raising the number of typical hand ax collections currently available to 4 artifacts, typical for the old world stone hand ax.

When excavating Go Da relic (An Binh ward, An Khe commune), archaeologists found 58 stone artifacts, including spearhead tools, cutting tools, scrapers, and stones . with with 21 tectite fragments distributed in the cultural layer containing stone tools, thought to fall from the universe when the cultural layers have been formed.

In the group of Ruoc Tung relics also found a total of 123 artifacts of various types and 127 pieces of tectite.

The Vietnam Institute of Archeology is planning to propose the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to recognize this old Stone Age relic group as a special national-level monument, because it needs to be protected.