A 2,300-year-old human skeleton is unearthed in HCM Metropolis’s Can Gio district. (Picture: nld.com.vn)

HCM Metropolis (VNS/VNA) – An historic human skeleton relationship again about
2,300 years has been found on the Giong Ca Vo archaeological website in Ho
Chi Minh Metropolis’s Can Gio district.

In keeping with specialists, the skeleton belongs to a 1.65m-tall man with excessive
social rating as a result of two animal fangs discovered on his neck.

The Giong Ca Vo archaeological website was found in 1993 and first excavated in
1994.

The overall space of the location is 29,000sq.m, the centre of which is situated on a
pink soil mound, about 1.5m increased than the encompassing space and covers an space
of seven,000sq.m.

Previous to the invention of the traditional skeleton, archaeologists have excavated
185 burial jars and 13 earthen tombs, together with tons of of valuable relics
made of assorted supplies like valuable stones, glass, and mollusks, at Giong
Ca Vo archaeological website.

Some relics have been found for the primary time on the website, equivalent to
animal-shaped earrings, three-pointed earrings or gold leaves, which comprise
historic, cultural values and particularly the historical past of formation and
growth of this land over 2,000 years in the past.

The archaeologists have decided that the age of the archaeological website is
from 2,500BC to the early AD years.

Excavation outcomes additionally present that the central space of Giong Ca Vo is split
into three phases: residence, burial and fashionable farming.

Primarily based on the examine of anthropological traits of the artefacts, Assoc.
Prof. Nguyen Lan Cuong, Common Secretary of the Vietnam Archaeological
Affiliation (VNAA), stated that the world was once occupied with indigenous
teams, primarily natives of Dong Nai tradition, who had cultural exchanges with the
exterior world.

In the meantime, Assoc. Prof. Tong Trung Tin, Chairman of the VNAA, famous that this
is the primary time Vietnamese archaeologists have found such a density of
burial jars at a relic website and the stratigraphic column is clarified with the
steady growth from residence relics to burial relics.

He due to this fact requested HCM Metropolis and specialists to compile a file to submit
to the Authorities to recognise Giong Ca Vo as a particular nationwide relic.

 In keeping with Dr Hsiao Chung Hung, an
archaeology professional from the Australian Nationwide College, the Giong Ca Vo
archaeological website is a crucial prehistoric archaeological website not solely in
Vietnam but in addition in Southeast Asia and Asia.

Positioned on the central level connecting the east and west, north and south
areas, this website may need been a busy port and residential to numerous
craftsmen and artisans about 2,500 years in the past, as it’s implied by the excavated
gadgets.

It was recognised as a nationwide archaeological relic that must be protected
in 2000 by the then Ministry of Tradition and Info.

Presently, the artefacts excavated on the Giong Ca Vo archaeological website are
displayed in a lot of museums such because the Nationwide Museum of Historical past in Hanoi,
the Museum of Vietnamese Historical past in HCM Metropolis and the Museum of Southern Historical past
and Tradition./.