Mán Bạc is a Neolithic archaeological site located in Yên Mô District, Ninh Bình Province, Vietnam,[2] dated from around 1,850–1,650 BC.
[8] However, the people at Man Bac are thought to have farmed rice and raised pigs and dogs, as well as supplementing their diet with protein derived from hunting and fishing.
Regionally, the pottery at Mán Bạc appears to exhibit more similarities with those from Guangxi and Guangdong than those from the lower Mekong valley or northeastern Thailand.
[15] Additional mammalian fauna found at Mán Bạc include rats, dogs, Aonyx cinerea, civet, rhinoceros, Muntiacus muntjak, deer, Bos or water buffalo, and Cetacea.
Overall, the cranial morphologies at Man Bac appear to share the most similarities with those from the Metal Period, modern Southeast Asians, and the Chinese Neolithic site at Weidun from the lower Yangtze River.
[21] The individuals at the site, especially the children, show extremely high frequencies of porotic hyperostosis, a condition generally associated with poor health.
[22] In 2018, researchers successfully extracted low coverage nuclear DNA from the petrous bone of 8 of the individuals from the cemetery at Mán Bạc.