Sơn Vi culture
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The Sơn Vi culture is the name given to a culture of the late Palaeolithic and early Mesolithic in Vietnam,[1][2] which preceding the Hòa Bình culture.
It's named after Sơn Vi (vi), a commune (xã) in Lâm Thao District, Phú Thọ Province, where relics from this culture were first founded.[3]
References
- ^ Archaeology and culture in Southeast Asia: unraveling the Nusantao Page 25 Wilhelm Solheim, David Bulbeck, Ambika Flavel - 2006 We know from some later Hoabinhian sites, which developed out of the Son Vi Culture, that coastal adaptation was one of the ecological niches occupied by the Hoabinhian people.
- ^ The Birth of Vietnam - Page 312 Keith Weller Taylor - 1991 "They consider the newly discovered Son-vi culture to belong to the late Paleolithic Age and early Mesolithic Age, Hoa-binh to be a Mesolithic culture, and Bac-son to be an early Neolithic culture. According to carbon- 14 tests, the transition ..."
- ^ Phó Giáo sư Lê Trung Vũ - Lễ hội Việt Nam - Page 263 "Tên chữ của làng là Sơn Vi, nghĩa là vân núi, tên nôm là kẻ Vây, đọc trại thành kẻ Vầy, nên tục ngữ có câu: ..."