Long Son is a small island with an area of 92km22 Located in the north of Vung Tau city, surrounded by rivers on all four sides.
The east of Long Son island borders Dinh River, Ba Ria city, the north borders Tan Hai commune, Tan Thanh district, Long Huong ward, Ba Ria city, across Mui Dui river and Ong Ben canal.
The south and west of Long Son island borders the Ghenh Rai Bay area, Thi Vai and Dong Nai river basins.
Long Son has long occupied an important position, an exchange point and a strategic military bridgehead at the eastern gateway of the South.
Looking on the map, Long Son is located between the north-south median of Tan Thanh district and Vung Tau city and near the east-west median of Ba Ria city and Can Gio district, Ho Chi Minh City. In the middle of four rivers, Long Son is an island that shields river mouths flowing into Ghenh Rai Bay: Thi Vai River, Nga Bay River in the west, Cha Va River, Mui Dui River and Dinh River in the east.
These are wide and deep river mouths that are important communication routes to connect with many inland areas. With the river system, Long Son commune has become a very important waterway transportation gateway of the Southeast region. In addition, Long Son is also a very early population convergence point, having interactions with many localities in the Southern region.
Before the Vietnamese came to Long Son to explore and live, thousands of years ago, people lived at the foot of Nui Nua island.
Archaeological excavations in 2003 and 2005 at Giong Lon site, village 3, Rach Gia, Long Son, Vung Tau city were conducted by the Ba Ria – Vung Tau Provincial Museum in coordination with the Vietnam History Museum, Hanoi. The process has opened a new and interesting perspective on this land. With the type of burial area site.
With an excavation survey area of 650m22discovered 80 clusters of pot tombs and earthen tombs and collected 2,310 artifacts, of which 2,043 artifacts were jewelry made of ceramic, glass, precious stones, metals…
Archaeologists also found the ancient Ngu Shu coin of the Western Han Dynasty in an excavation pit at the Gong Lon site.
From the discovered artifacts, it shows that Giong Lon residents had a fairly high level of economic and social development… They not only interacted within the region but also had extensive exchanges with contemporary cultural regions. different in our country and also in Southeast Asia.
More than 2,000 years ago, Long Son used to be a port town, a place to receive and transform many cultural elements of countries in Southeast Asia and at the same time a place to gather the essence of indigenous culture, with great power. spread…
Ancient ceramic piece decorated with a pattern of two straight lines creating sharp angles, discovered at Giong Ong Truong, Long Son commune, Long Son island, Ba Ria-Vung Tau province in 2014.
In 2014, the Hanoi National Museum of History coordinated with the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Ba Ria – Vung Tau province to organize excavations and surveys of a number of archaeological sites at Giong Ong Truong, Bai Bai. Ca Song…Long Son commune, Vung Tau city, our experts have searched and discovered many new types of artifacts closely related to this land, dating back about 2,500 years ago.
Compared to the archaeological discoveries in 2002, 2003, and 2005 at Giong Lon, the ancient ceramic artifacts at Giong Ong Truong are richer types of relics including: residences, ceramic workshops and burial sites…
This article introduces readers to some typical types of ancient ceramics at Giong Ong Truong, Long Son commune, Vung Tau city that were newly excavated at the end of 2014.
The main excavation area this time includes Giong Ong Truong and Bai Ca Song… Giong Ong Truong is located in the west of Long Son commune, Vung Tau city, about 5km from the commune center as the crow flies, close to the bay. Ghenh Rai, 10 km from Can Gio district, Ho Chi Minh City.
The area of Giong Ong Truong is about 6,000 square meters2, length 300m, width 20m. The soil in the fields is mixed with brown grit
red, 2-3m above sea level. Currently, in the rainy season, people still grow all kinds of crops: corn, okra, cowpeas, cucumbers… some fruit trees; banana, mango, coconut…
The southern area is a mangrove forest with many types of trees growing: fish sauce, mangroves… the east is the salt field area of people cultivating production.
In 2002, the Hanoi National Museum of History, in collaboration with the Ba Ria – Vung Tau Provincial Museum, visited this location to survey.
Here, the survey team found a number of ancient ceramic pieces, characterized by white-gray ceramic coats, black bones, with mouths cupped close to the edge, creating slight concave lines…
In March 2005, the Provincial Museum conducted a survey at Giong Ong Truong including. 01 hole: 2m x 2m x 1.5m and 2 holes 1.5m x 1.5m x 1.5m.
In the first pit, the group recovered 300 pieces of ceramics of all kinds. The evolution of the cultural layer is as follows: the topsoil layer is 40cm deep, greatly disturbed due to the process of clearing and renovating for many years to cultivate vegetables and fruit trees…
From a depth of 40cm or more, the less disturbed soil layer is reddish brown, containing many pieces of pottery, brick slag and ash… The last layer of soil is at a depth of 1.0 – 1.2m and still has some Pottery fragments mixed with sand, mud and plant remains…
At a depth of 1.5 meters is a white clay layer, most likely this is the raw material source that ancient residents exploited to make ceramics on the spot.
Ancient ceramic piece with decorative fish bone pattern, discovered at Giong Ong Truong, Long Son commune (Long Son island, Ba Ria-Vung Tau province) in 2014.
From this abundant source of raw materials, the potter mixes some plant remains, kneads the soil carefully, molds it with his hands, dries it, then uses firewood to burn it in the open without having to burn it in a kiln to create diverse products. Form: pot, cup, cup, kettle, bowl, etc. to serve daily life or exchange with neighboring residents…
Ceramic fragments discovered in exploration pits may be waste dumps left by some ancient ceramic production facilities.
Most of these ceramic pieces are crushed, making it very difficult to restore the original shape. They have the same characteristics: the outside is covered in reddish brown, the mouth is cupped with engraved patterns, geometric shapes, and the method of creating patterns is by Use a stick to carve lines before firing.
During the 2005 exploratory excavation, experts believed that Giong Ong Truong and Long Son pottery had similar characteristics to the archaeological sites of Giong Ca Vo and Giong Phet in Can Gio district, Ho Chi Minh City. .
This is further clarified by new documents discovered after this large-scale excavation and survey.
After more than 3 months of excavation, archaeologists have found the following typical types of ceramics: vases, jars, pots, cups… in addition, they also discovered quite a lot of stoves used in daily cooking. of ancient residents and tools serving the life of fishing, weaving… such as: net sinkers, ceramic balls, ceramic earrings, plumb bobs… especially the side of the beam, where it comes into contact with the tools. The kitchen is stylized with 3 protruding points shaped like a sea snake’s head…
The decorative patterns at Giong Truong, Bai Ca Song… Long Son commune include familiar motifs associated with coastal residents: two straight lines creating an acute angle located symmetrically in a double, parallel line. Ripples like stylized water waves, decorated all over the body of the pot, or a herringbone motif, or a combination of herringbone patterns and adjacent triangles, stacked densely on the mouth of the pot. …
Compare and contrast with the types of ceramic pots, vases, tubs, trays, earrings, ceramic balls… discovered at the Giong Ca Vo archaeological site in Hiep Hoa hamlet, Long Hoa commune, Can district Now (Ho Chi Minh City), experts realize that there is a quite close connection. About 2,500 years ago, ancient residents like Ca Vo, Giong Phet (Can Gio, Ho Chi Minh City) had close interactions…
References:
– Vietnam History Museum. Museum of Vietnamese History in Ho Chi Minh City. Prehistoric archeology, preliminary history of Ho Chi Minh City, Tre Publishing House, Ho Chi Minh City, 1998.
– Bui Chi Hoang, Pham Chi Than, Nguyen Khanh Trung Kien, Archeology of Ba Ria Vung Tau from prehistory to early history, Social Sciences Publishing House, 2012.
– Nguyen Thi Hau, Le Thanh Hai, Popular archeology of the South, Vietnam from experiment to theory, Ho Chi Minh City General Publishing House.
– Nguyen Van Tam, Survey of Giong Ong Truong archaeological site, Ba Ria – Vung Tau Cultural Heritage Journal No. 8, 2005.
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