Miền Trung Việt Nam: Thời kỳ hình thành nhà nước sớm qua nghiên cứu phân bố và tính chất của các địa điểm khảo cổ học/Central Vietnam during the period of emergence of early states studies on the distribution and nature of archaeological sites

Lâm Thị Mỹ Dung, Miền Trung Việt Nam: Thời kỳ hình thành nhà nước sớm qua nghiên cứu phân bố và tính chất của các địa điểm khảo cổ học/Central Vietnam during the period of emergence of early states studies on the distribution and nature of archaeological sites, pp.1-15

Abstract:

The time from 500 BC to AD 500 is defined by scholars as the critical period in the cultural and historical process of Vietnam in particular and in Southeast Asia in general. Recent archaeological finds and discoveries lead us to recognize the dynamic cultural contacts of the area with the external world and strong acculturation between the exogenous and indigenous factors which led the emergence and development of the early polity so-called chiefdoms and the transformation from chiefdoms which evidenced the low social complexity to the state polity with the higher social complexity.

This transformation process of political structures in the societies from the proto-historic to early historic periods (i.e the formation of the early states of Linyi inheritated the Sa Huỳnh chiefdoms) in Central Vietnam is not of radical, sudden nature. This is the results of the gradual transformation process, which based on the local ground and influenced by the internal needs and external impacts including political, economic, cultural or environmental…

Keywords: Sa Huỳnh culture; Early Champa; Champa; Linyi; Chiefdom; Mandala; Social complexity; Central Vietnam.