Posted on 01/18/2011 7:04:57 PM PST by SunkenCiv
History, legend and memory have long pointed to Co Loa, an earthwork enclosure outside Hanoi, as the seat of an indigenous power that gave identity to the people of the Bac Bo region, north Vietnam. Survey, excavation and a set of radiocarbon dates now put this site on the historical map. The main rampart of the middle circuit was built in the later centuries BC, before the coming of Han Imperial China. Nor was this rampart the first defence. The authors show the potential of archaeology for revealing the creation and development of a polity among the prosperous people of the Dongson culture.
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Viet ping.
My brother is a VietNam vet.
Been doing some reviewing. The Vietnamese and the Irish must be somehow related. When they weren’t fighting foreign domination they sure loved to fight each other.
A cursory view of their history suggests that whenever they weren’t running the Chinese out of their country, they were inviting them in to assist one side or another in their incessant civil/dynastic/clan wars.
The Tay Son folks defeated a lot of Vietnamese, too.
Very clever!
“We should pick up France and move it.” — Will Rogers
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