Some features about burials and Đông Sơn people’s custom of burying burial goods
Thứ Hai, 27/07/2026
Đông Sơn people had
their own conceptions of religious beliefs, customs, and death and life etc.
Therefore, they buried with the dead different kinds of burial goods such as
production tools (axes, spades, ploughshares etc.), domestic utensils (bowls,
ladles, jars, drums etc.), weapons (javelins, spears, arrows etc.). Burial
goods were usually bended or crushed, which is called by archaeologists as
“killing” custom. In some Đông Sơn tombs, beside the pragmatic burial goods,
there were also small replicas of objects.
The quantity as well
as types of burial goods in Đông Sơn burials show their owners’ role and
position in the society.
The custom of burying
burial goods of Đông Sơn people showed the close coherence between the two
worlds, or in other words, between the reality and the spiritual world. It is
also a source of information about the real situation of the social life in the
Đông Sơn society. On that base, it asserted the vitality of a brilliant bronze
age and a culture that bore indigenous elements – Đông Sơn Culture – in the of Nam.
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