Đông Sơn village (Vietnamese: ) is a small village on the banks of the
Ma River in
Hàm Rồng ward,
Thanh Hóa
Thanh Hóa () is the capital of Thanh Hóa Province. The city is situated in the east of the province on the Ma River (Sông Mã), about 150 kilometers (93 miles) south of Hanoi and 1560 kilometers (969 miles) north of Ho Chi Minh City. Thanh ...
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Thanh Hóa Province. The village is best known for the discovery in 1924 of artifacts of what was later named
Đông Sơn culture
The Dong Son culture or the Lạc Việt culture (named for modern village Đông Sơn, a village in Thanh Hóa, Vietnam) was a Bronze Age culture in ancient Vietnam centred at the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam from 1000 BC until the ...
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In 1924 a local fisherman stumbled on some bronze artifacts. On learning of the discovery the director of the
École française d'Extrême-Orient
The French School of the Far East (french: École française d'Extrême-Orient, ), abbreviated EFEO, is an associated college of PSL University dedicated to the study of Asian societies. It was founded in 1900 with headquarters in Hanoi in w ...
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Léonard Eugène Aurousseau (1888-1929), instructed a local French customs official named Louis Pajot to investigate the location. Pajot immediately discovered numerous graves and set to work to excavate them. When the importance of the finds was realised the site was entrusted to professional archaeologists including
Olov Janse
Professor Robert Ture Olov Janse (August 3, 1892, in Norrköping, Sweden – March 1985, in Washington, D.C., United States) was a Swedish archaeologist. He is notable for his excavation work at Đông Sơn between 1935 and 1939. Though he origin ...
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[Arts of Asia - Volume 37 - Page 57 2007 "In 1924, a Vietnamese farmer found some bronze artefacts in a small village along the bank of the Ma River in Thanh Hoa ... ..Janse criticised Pajot's crude and un-scientific "excavations" at the Dong Son village site]
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Populated places in Thanh Hóa province
Archaeological sites in Vietnam
Đông Sơn culture