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<< Our Photo Pages >> Rach Nui - Artificial Mound in Vietnam

Submitted by bat400 on Monday, 02 July 2012  Page Views: 8005

DigsSite Name: Rach Nui
Country: Vietnam Type: Artificial Mound

Latitude: 10.460000N  Longitude: 106.590000E
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2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
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Foxtail Millet
Foxtail Millet submitted by bat400_photo : Foxtail Millet. Setaria italica Credit: Mark Nesbitt and Delwen Samuel. I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain. This applies worldwide. I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain. This applies worldwide. Photo for use in News story. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Artificial Mound in Long An Province.
This five meter tall ancient human-made mound surrounded by small tidal streams and mangrove swamps marks the site of a 3,300 to 3,700 year old Neolithic village site in Southern Vietnam.

Excavations in 2012 conducted by Dr. Marc Oxenham and a team of Australian and Vietnamese specialists are reported to have found the remains of living platforms, built up from crushed shell, pottery and dried branches. Coprolites and burnt plant and animal remains indicate the people at Rach Nui used betel nut and foxtail millet – an early domesticated plant. Animal remains included pigs and dogs, and hunted river animals such as crocodiles, turtles, macaques and monitor lizards, catfish, shellfish, and mud crabs.

Note: The location given is only very roughly approximate. The site is in Long An Provence, and is about 30km south of Ho Chi Minh City.


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Research sheds light on how Southeast Asia evolved from hunter gatherer to farming by bat400 on Monday, 02 July 2012
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The possible discovery of the earliest toilet in Southern Vietnam could give up clues about how Southeast Asia evolved from a traditional hunter gatherer society to a farming community, new research from The Australian National University reveals.

Dr. Marc Oxenham led a team of Australian and Vietnamese specialists on a seven-week archaeological excavation. The team believe they found Vietnam’s earliest latrine when they stumbled across more than 30 preserved faeces belonging to humans and dogs that contained fish and shattered animal bones.

“A detailed analysis of these will provide a wealth of information on both the diet of humans and dogs at Rach Nui, but also on the types of parasites each had to contend with,” Dr. Oxenham said.

Dr. Oxenham said about 4000 years ago, major economic, behavioral and genetic changes led to Southeast Asians swapping a lifestyle of hunting, gathering and fishing for farming.

“These hunter gatherers were highly mobile, always moving from place to place to find food resources. The agriculturists had a more sedentary, stable existence, and because they stayed in one place, they were able to grow crops. And of course, population size grows with a much more stable food source.

“So what we tend to find in places like Southern Vietnam is a lot more evidence of these people in the landscape. Because they were sedentary and the population size was expanding, they left mounds like Rach Nui with evidence of their lives.
“The presence of foxtail millet is really exciting. It not only confirms that this community was growing domesticated crops at this time, but this variety of millet is from China and may provide clues into the origins of farming in Southern Vietnam, and indeed, Southeast Asia as a whole,” Dr. Oxenham said.

Dr. Oxenham added that the menu of the Rach Nui community differed from other Neolithic communities, and, apart from pigs and dogs, tended to include animals found in swampy environments.

Thanks to coldrum for the link. For more, see phys.org.
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