SOME NEW RESEARCHES ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES OF CIRCULAR EARTHWORKS IN THE AREA OF BINH PHUOC PROVINCE

Abstract

Circular earthworks sites are special archaeological sites distributed in Southern Indochina with the settlement area in round shape and surrounding outside by an embankment earthen wall and a moat for defense function. These archaeological sites belong to prehistoric communities with the dating back to circa 4,000 - 3,000 years ago, they were discovered in the plateau red-soil nowadays provinces of Binh Phuoc (Vietnam) and Kampong Cham (Cambodia). Recently studies have new findings about the spatial of site distribution, typology and dating of the prehistoric "round villages" in this region. This article introduces the new findings from fieldwork survey to locate the site discovered by Louis Malleret in 1959 and update new research results in 2019 of the distribution and chronology of some circular earthworks sites in Binh Phuoc province.

Keywords: prehistoric, circular earthwork site, Binh Phuoc