The Sơn Vi culture is the name given to a culture of the late

Palaeolithic The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic ( years ago) ( ), also called the Old Stone Age (), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehist ...

and early

Mesolithic The Mesolithic (Ancient Greek language, Greek: μέσος, ''mesos'' 'middle' + λίθος, ''lithos'' 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic. The term Epipaleolithic i ...

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, which preceding the Hòa Bình culture. It's named after Sơn Vi ( vi), a commune (xã) in Lâm Thao District,

Phú Thọ Province Phú Thọ is a Provinces of Vietnam, province in Đông Bắc, northern Vietnam. Its capital is Việt Trì, which is from Hanoi and from Noi Bai International Airport, Nội Bài International Airport. The province covers an area of and, as ...

, where relics from this culture were first founded.Phó Giáo sư Lê Trung Vũ - Lễ hội Việt Nam - Page 263 "Tên chữ của làng là Sơn Vi, nghĩa là vân núi, tên nôm là kẻ Vây, đọc trại thành kẻ Vầy, nên tục ngữ có câu: ..."

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