The Sơn Vi culture is the name given to a culture of the late Palaeolithic and early Mesolithic Age in Vietnam.[1][2]
Sơn Vi (vi) itself is a village (xã) in Lâm Thao District, Phú Thọ Province. Sơn Vi is the official Chinese character tên chữ name of the village, it also has a demotic Vietnamese tên nôm name, kẻ Vây.[3]
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edit- ^ Archaeology and culture in Southeast Asia: unraveling the Nusantao Page 25 Wilhelm Solheim, David Bulbeck, Ambika Flavel - 2006 We know from some later Hoabinhian sites, which developed out of the Son Vi Culture, that coastal adaptation was one of the ecological niches occupied by the Hoabinhian people.
- ^ The Birth of Vietnam - Page 312 Keith Weller Taylor - 1991 "They consider the newly discovered Son-vi culture to belong to the late Paleolithic Age and early Mesolithic Age, Hoa-binh to be a Mesolithic culture, and Bac-son to be an early Neolithic culture. According to carbon- 14 tests, the transition ..."
- ^ Phó Giáo sư Lê Trung Vũ - Lễ hội Việt Nam - Page 263 "Tên chữ của làng là Sơn Vi, nghĩa là vân núi, tên nôm là kẻ Vây, đọc trại thành kẻ Vầy, nên tục ngữ có câu: ..."
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