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 Age in Vietnam. [1] [2]

Mesolithic Prehistoric period, second part of the Stone Age

In Old World archaeology, Mesolithic is the period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic. The term Epipaleolithic is often used synonymously, especially for outside northern Europe, and for the corresponding period in the Levant and Caucasus. The Mesolithic has different time spans in different parts of Eurasia. It refers to the final period of hunter-gatherer cultures in Europe and Western Asia, between the end of the Last Glacial Maximum and the Neolithic Revolution. In Europe it spans roughly 15,000 to 5,000 BP; in Southwest Asia roughly 20,000 to 8,000 BP. The term is less used of areas further east, and not at all beyond Eurasia and North Africa.

Sơn Vi (vi) itself is a village (xã) in Lâm Thao District, Phú Thọ Province. Sơn Vi is the official Chinese character tên chữ name of the village, it also has a demotic Vietnamese tên nôm name, kẻ Vây. [3]

Lâm Thao is a rural district of Phú Thọ Province in the Northeast region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 106,610. The district covers an area of 115 km². The district capital lies at Lâm Thao.

Phú Thọ Province Province in Northeast, Vietnam

Phú Thọ is a province in northern Vietnam. Its capital is Việt Trì, which is 80 kilometres (50 mi) from Hanoi and 50 kilometres (31 mi) from Nội Bài International Airport. The province covers an area of 3528.1 square kilometres and, as of 2008, it had a population of 1,364,700.

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References

  1. 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.
  2. 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 ..."
  3. 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: ..."