Đông Sơn bronze drums
Tambores de bronce de Đông Sơn
- Date
- c. 600 BCE · confidence medium
- Place
- Đông Sơn, Thanh Hóa, Vietnam
- Credited to
- Đông Sơn culture
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
Large bronze drums cast by the lost-wax method and decorated with boats, birds and central stars, used in rituals and as symbols of power. They spread throughout island Southeast Asia, evidence of long-distance exchange networks.
What it led to
- prestige and exchange networks in Southeast Asia
- the bronze-drum tradition down to modern times
- boat iconography documenting the seafaring of the period