Dong Son culture

[4][5][6] The Dong Son people were skilled at cultivating rice, keeping water buffalos and pigs, fishing and sailing in long dugout canoes.

They also were skilled bronze casters, which is evidenced by the Dong Son drum found widely throughout northern Vietnam and Guangxi in China.

[16] One study states that the majority of Dongsonians have cranial features characterized by narrow long faces, relatively flat glabellas and nasal roots and round orbits due to extensive admixture with their northern neighbors, including those from southern China.

[17] Another study states that Núi Nấp populations have affinities with the Dushan and Baojianshan and that they can be modeled as a mixture of Dushan-related (∼65%) and northern East Asian-related (∼35%) ancestry.

Lost-wax casting was based on Chinese founders, but the scenes are local, including drummers and other musicians, warriors, rice processing, birds, deer, war vessels, and geometric designs.