Sa Huỳnh culture
A culture of central and southern Vietnam (c. 1000 BC – AD 200), known for burials in lidded jars, locally forged iron tools and weapons, and jade ear ornaments that travelled as far as Thailand, Taiwan and the Philippines; its people were most likely the ancestors of the Cham.
- Date
- c. 1000 BC – c. 200year known, approximate · duration: ≈ 1199 years
- Place
- Sa Huỳnh (type site)approximate locationtoday: Sa Huỳnh, Quảng Ngãi Province, Vietnam · Southeast Asia and Oceania
- Threads
- Southeast Asia and Oceania (1st–10th c.)
- Also known as
- Sa Huynh culture; Культура Са-Хюинь; Sa Huỳnh–Kalanay
Sa Huỳnh sites stretch from the Mekong Delta to Quảng Bình province; the type site in Quảng Ngãi province was discovered in 1909. The Sa Huỳnh people cremated their adult dead and buried them in jars covered with lids, a practice characteristic of this culture in the region. The graves contain iron axes, swords, spearheads, knives and sickles, and ear ornaments of jade, sometimes of glass, among them pendants in the form of two-headed animals.
Such ornaments have been found in central Thailand, on Orchid Island off Taiwan and on Palawan in the Philippines: Sa Huỳnh was part of a wide exchange network across the South China Sea, known as the Sa Huỳnh–Kalanay interaction sphere. The culture is dated to about 1000 BC – AD 200; both limits are approximate. Its people were most likely the ancestors of the Austronesian-speaking Cham, the founders of the kingdom of Champa.
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- Trưng sisters’ rebellionMarch 40 – 43 · Southeast Asia and Oceania
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Sources
- Wikipedia (English): Sa Huỳnh culture
- Wikipedia (Russian): Сахюинь
- Higham C. Early Mainland Southeast Asia: From First Humans to Angkor. — Bangkok: River Books, 2014.
- Wikidata: Q2000186