Archaeologists unearth site dating back to 9,000 years ago
Bac Kan (VNA) - Archaeologists from the Vietnam Archaeology
Institute and Bac Kan Museum have unearthed ancient artefacts on karst
mountains in Ba Be district in the northern province of Bac Kan.
At
Puong Cave, inside the Ba Be National Park, they found nearly 100 stone
and bone objects indicating traces of early people.
Two ancient cookers have
been discovered at the excavation site but no tomb has been found as
expected.
Some objects were made
from small stones taken from the beds of streams and rivers, which share
significant similarities with tools from the Hoa Binh civilisation
(12,000-10,000BC). These include oval tools and short axes.
Remnants
of bones of pigs, monkeys, hedgehogs and deer as well as shells of
oysters and snails and some nuts have been found, which archaeologists
believe are remnants of food left by early people.
Archaeologists also
found a rectangular stone with three round holes four centimetres
apart. They have not determined its function.
According to Prof Trinh
Nang Chung, head of the excavation team, the site belonged to New Stone
Age Hoa Binh Civilisation residents, dating back some 8,000
to 9,000 years.
More research will be
conducted at the Puong Cave in the next few months, he said.-VNA