extended abstracts - Geomorphic Processes and Geoarchaeology

Geomorphic processes and geoarchaeology
economic strategy at the transition of the Early to Middle Neolithic: foraging economy
was replaced by a more complex system, in which hunting and food-gathering still
dominated while productive economy had a prestigious character and was not determined
by economic necessity.
Thus we can suppose a hypothesis of multifaceted settlement model of the Early
and Middle Neolithic. Our investigations allowed us to reconstruct economic system
including settlement models of ancient inhabitants of the Early and Middle Neolithic that
differ substantially from the ethnographical models usually used for interpreting the
Stone Age. Analysis of the «archaeological microregions» along with mapping of known
stone age finds on the territory of Smolensk region allowed us to suppose existence of
other «microregions», describe dynamics of settlement of these territories and trace areas
where bearers of other cultural traditions could have come.
This research was supported by RFBR 11-06-00090-а, RFH 10-01-00553а/Б.
THE GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACHES IN STUDY
OF MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY IN VIETNAM
Nguyen Quang Mien
Institute of Archaeology, Vietnam, nqmien@yahoo.com
Vietnam is an oceanic country. It locates in the Southeast Asia and in the
international marine trade line from North Asia to South Asia (fig. 1). The ancient
inhabitants who resided at Vietnam had known the ocean for many thousand years ago.
In addition, BienDong was a family living environment of the Vietnamese. The
Vietnamese ancient marine inhabitants concentrated on the groups and settled in the
maritime limestone cave or costal sand dunes. They exploited the oceanic benefit to
serve not only eating routine but also exchange with other inhabitants who located in the
high mountainous areas. Furthermore, ocean has become a part, which cannot lack for
culture and sprit life of maritime inhabitants. They established the oceanic characteristics
in traditional culture of Vietnam. The paper from geoarchaeological approaches to
contribute to achieve clearly the oceanic cultural characteristics in Vietnamese traditional
culture within four parts:
• The first ancient inhabitant living in the sea;
• Economic–culture exchanging between forest and maritime;
• The oceanic fluctuations and immigration trips on the sea;
• Bien Dong in today living.
Figure 1. Vietnam locates
in the Southeast Asia
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