Vietnam Antique/ 500 B.C., Dong Son Bronze Axe - Head
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You are bidding on exactly what seen in the photos : Vietnam Antique/ DONG SON BRONZE Axe-Head 1st CENTURY(RD23) Size: 5.5cm x 5cm Shipping & Handling : $15us via Registered Mail . (We'll not discount shipping fee for this item when ship it together other items in the parcel ) Dong Son Culture Beginning in the middle of the first millennium b.c., Southeast Asia, including the southern fringes of China, came under the influence of a distinctive metal-using tradition called Dong Son.The discovery of the protohistoric Dong Son culture was the first exposure to Europeans of a complex Bronze Age stratified society in mainland Southeast Asia. At the site of Dong Son, on the south bank of the Ma River near Thanh Hoa in northern Viet Nam, excavations conducted by Pajot and, later, by Janse revealed a rich cemetery complex containing objects of bronze, iron, pottery, imported semiprecious stones, and artifacts of Chinese origin (Janse, 1958). Subsequent excavations at Vietnamese sites such as Viet Khe, Lang Ca, and Lang Vac (Bellwood 1985, Tan 1980), indicate that although the type site was peripheral to the focus of Dong Son activities in the Red River delta (Higham, 1989), it is nonetheless typical of this aspect of mainland Southeast Asian Bronze Age culture in that it provides dramatic evidence of the socially stratified, semiurban
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