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Đồng Đậu culture

pre-historic culture of Vietnam

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2023
Entity authorityQ8079980 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Đồng Đậu culture (c. 1,500-1,000 BC) was a culture of the Middle Bronze Age in Vietnam. The pottery of the Đồng Đậu culture is distinguished from Phùng Nguyên culture pottery by parallel markings.

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“Đồng Đậu culture” enters the record as pre-historic culture of Vietnam. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Đồng, culture and pre-historic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 34-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Đồng, culture and pre-historic.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q8079980. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Đồng Đậu culture” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.