Prehistoric ruins in volcanic caves in Dak Nong

Recently, scientists have discovered many relics and archaeological relics in volcanic caves of Krong No, Dak Nong - the most beautiful volcanic cave system in Southeast Asia, announced in 2014.

This discovery opens a new direction of volcanic cave archeology in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. News from Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.

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In 2014, scientists of the General Department of Geology & Minerals and Japan Cave Association announced the largest volcanic cave system in Southeast Asia in Dak Nong province, which is considered to detect tremors and open up potentials. Great calendar for the Central Highlands region. Recently, in the framework of implementing the project "Building a Collection of National Species of Vietnamese Nature " hosted by the Vietnam Museum of Nature, scientists have discovered another value of the system. This volcanic cave system, which is a monument and archaeological relic with a quite thick density.

According to the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, the newly discovered archaeological relics include stoneware, including disc-shaped stone tools, short axes and short axes grinding blades, oval axes and axes. oval grinding blade, piece stripping tool, slab stripping, stone carving, stone mill, grinding stone, pestle crushing.

Scientists also discovered many animal bones, not excluding prehistoric bones. These relics are no longer solid, easily broken when dry, the hollow part of the bone is filled with clay powder in porous form. In addition to the bone fragments in the cave, there are also fossilized animal molars, preliminarily identified as herbivores.

In particular, the scientists also discovered a lot of ceramic tools with different thickness, most of them have low burning rate, easy to crumble, made from sandy clay, small particles, squeeze hands, single type simple, mainly pots and containers. Patterns on ceramic pieces are quite sharp and varied such as dotted tiles, dot strips, strip tiles, twisted ropes.

Previously, in 2016, Vietnamese archaeologists discovered that in the Krong No volcanic area, there are many archaeological sites, most of them are distributed on hills, fields or along rivers and streams. However, it has not been discovered in volcanic caves.

According to the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, this could be the first prehistoric archaeological findings in a volcanic cave in Vietnam, opening a new direction of volcanic cave archeology. in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
Vietnam Museum of Nature said that the research team of La The Phuc and many Japanese scientists are continuing to study at this volcanic cave system.