Ref ID:	30443
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Bui Van Liem,
Title:	A study of boat-shaped coffins from Dongson sites in Vietnam
Date:	2005
Source:	Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association
Notes:	Proceedings of the 17th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Taipei, Taiwan 9 to 15 September 2002
Abstract:	Boat-shaped coffins have been found at archaeological sites throughout Mainland and Island Southeast Asia. The greatest concentration occurs in Vietnam, in Metal Age sites attributed to the Dong Son culture (500 BC-AD 300). At a conference on boat-shaped coffins at the History Museum in Hanoi in 1983, Vietnamese scholars proposed that these distinctive wooden coffins contained the remains of the ancient Viet. This paper discusses a recent study of boat-shaped coffins from several Dong Son sites that gives some new insights into the groups who buried their dead in this unusual way during the late prehistoric period in Vietnam.
Date Created:	11/29/2005
Volume:	25
Page Start:	117
Page End:	119