🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Xom Con
Pleistocene–Holocene Hoabinhian 11,000–8000 BCE · Hoabinhian (Colani)
Colani's Hoabinhian cave — Xóm Cón pebble chopper rock-shelter at Hòa Bình (11–8 ka, Sumatralith).
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient city
Óc Eo Archaeological Site
Oc Eo–Funan culture 200 BCE–700 CE → Chenla · Austro-Asiatic Funan / Indianised Buddhist-Hindu
Funan port-city of Mekong Delta (c.200 BCE–12th c. CE) on ancient Austro-Asiatic maritime Silk Road, 450 ha moated and canal-grid city linking Mekong to coast 10 km inland — Roman medallions…
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Đông Sơn (Dong Son)
Dong Son Bronze–Iron 1000 BCE–100 CE (Phùng Nguyên → Dong Dau → Go Mun → Dong Son → Han) · Dong Son (Vietic Austroasiatic, Austro-Tai contact) — ancestors of Kinh Vietnamese
Type-site for Dong Son culture (c.1000 BCE–100 CE) on the Mã River near Thanh Hóa — Bronze–Iron Age village with famous bronze drum foundry, excavated 1924 by Madeleine Colani (first Dong Son…
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Đông Sơn (Thanh Hóa)
Phùng Nguyên 2000 BCE → Đông Sơn late Bronze–Early Iron 1000 BCE–100 CE → Han 100 CE–300 CE · Đông Sơn (Late Bronze–Early Iron, Southeast Asian Dong Son drum horizon)
Type-site Đông Sơn (1000 BCE–100 CE) on Mã River near Thanh Hóa — Heger I drums 90 cm with bird–toad frieze and socketed plows.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Đồng Đậu
Đồng Đậu culture 1500–1200 BCE (Phùng Nguyên → Đồng Đậu → Gò Mun → Dong Son) · Phùng Nguyên succession (Vietic Red River) → Dong Son ancestor
Red River Phùng Nguyên succession site (c.1800–1200 BCE, Đồng Đậu culture 1500–1200) northwest of Hanoi — type-site for Đồng Đậu culture (Bùi Vinh's Phùng Nguyên → Đồng Đậu → Gò Mun sequence)…
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient city
Khao Sam Kaeo Chumphon
Iron Age 4th c BCE–2nd c CE early historic port · Kra isthmus Iron Age port — Thai–Indian–Han–Silla crossroads
Khao Sam Kaeo Chumphon — Iron Age trans-Asian port (4th c BCE–2nd c CE) on Khao Sam Kaeo hill at Thai Kra Isthmus 5 km Gulf of Thailand 5 km from Chumphon, excavated 1991–2007 by B. Bellina–P.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Ancient city
Angkor Borei
Protohistoric Funan to Chenla (c.400 BCE–800 CE, peak 2nd–7th cent CE) · Funan (Mekong Delta Oc Eo–Angkor Borei)
Funan delta capital (400 BCE–800 CE) — 300 ha moated brick city with Phnom Da hill temples and earliest Khmer Vishnu.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Archaeological wonder
Angkor Borei and Phnom Da
The ancient Funan sites of Angkor Borei (Khmer: អង្គរបុរី, lit. 'city of cities') and Phnom Da (Khmer: ភ្នំដា, lit.
🇱🇦 Laos · Megalith
Plain of Jars
Iron Age 500 BCE – 500 CE (some lids to 800 CE) · Unknown Austroasiatic? Ancestors of Lao-Tai
Megalithic landscape of >90 sites with >2,100 large carved sandstone jars (1–3 m tall, up to 14 t) scattered across Xiangkhouang plateau, carved 500 BCE–500 CE, associated with mortuary rites and…