5. DR.PHAM DUC MANH, Institute of Social Sciences, Hochiminh City, Vietnam.
On February-March, 1994 I returned to Bungbac in Baria-Vungtau province (at latitude of 10?30'32"N and longitude of 107?30'47"E). This site was discovered and investigated in 1984 and first excavated in 1986. This is a workshop site located in a swamp. It has wooden architecture of the "pile house" type. One hundred ninety-five stone relics (11 sand-stone mounds for casting axes, chisels, spears, javelins, sharp-points, 80 sketches in disk's appliance and waste material of stone bracelet production), 1 bronze spear, 1 bronze sharp-point, 3 earthen distaffs (fussade), 6 clay pellets, thousands of potsherds and hundred of wooden piles and planks were found. During mission in Bungbac, I excavated a vast area in order to study more carefully the architecture of the wooden structure. Bronze artifacts such as axes, bracelets, rings, coils and little belts had been found together with sand-stone and clay-molds, and maybe clay fragments of crucibles for melting bronze. There are nearly 30 mounds of the type "2-4 valves mounds." Beyond this, I also collected numerous stone polishers, more than 300 sketches in disc's appearance and waste material of stone bracelets, 2 stone hoes, 60 stone implements in ax form in which their used edges were evenly grounded, material used for ornament making, clay pellets, fragments of kitchen, wooden collection of tools or instruments and wooden piles or planks.
There are 8 radiocarbon dates from Bungbac, analyzed by the Institute of History of Material Culture of the Academy of Science of Russia in Leningrad (5 samples) and by the Center of Atomic Technology in Hochiminh City (3 samples). Among the eldest result is: 3080+/-40BP, Le2692-84BBTSII-M5 (0.8m in depth). The youngest result is: 2310+/-40BP, Le2686-84BBTSII-M1 (1m in depth). Although the above results are the best radiocarbon dates in South Vietnam, we will still submit material from the 1994 excavation for radiocarbon dating.
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