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English summary on pages 74-75 as follows: In May and June 1999, the author discovered a hitherto unknown burial site of Sa Huynh culture near Ai Nghia in Dai Loc district, Quang Nam province. The first jar burials were found there by chance in 1994. In the following years, the cemetery was systematically pillaged, some hundred jar burials were found at a depth of 1m below the surface, and the cemetery was entirely destroyed. The graves were richly endowed with burial offerings (stone ornaments) like double headed animal ear pendants, split earrings, small bronze bowls, axes and spearheads of iron, small ceramic pots and clay spindle whorls). Some of these finds of different burials could be recorded with the help of villagers who surrendered several artifacts of jewellery for the study collection of the Department of History of the University of Hue. It seems ear pendants and beads of nephrite are product of a local workshop tradition for which we have clear evidences from different sites in Central and North Vietnam since the end of the Late Stone Age. Beads of carnelian, agate or rock-crystal together with other materials (iron, glass, gold) spread out over Vietnam by intenifiel contacts between India and Southeast Asia int he second half of the 1st millennium BC. The finds from Go Mun and rich evidence from other recently discovered complexes in Quang Nam province, give the impression that an important nucleus of the Sa Huynh culture developed on the promontory near the Thu Bon and Vu Gia rivers with their tributaries. The former interpretation of the Sa Huynh people as an only sea-oriented population, has been doubted since the beginning of the 1980s by Vietnamese archaeologists and contradicts our new data. Several local groups belonging to the Sa Huynh culture inhabited ot the role area of Central and South Vietnam, but are limited to particular geo-cultural defined areas. This diversity created distinctive features in economy and culture, from which only unbalanced records are known, mostly coming from burial places. Drawing a more realistic picture of the Iron Age people will be an interesting aim of the archaeological research in the large cultural between the estuary of the Mekong river and the Hai Van pass.
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