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Những mảnh ghép thất lạc của lịch sử TTCT - Con người đã dành hàng thế kỷ để tìm hiểu bí ẩn của những khối đá khổng lồ Stonehenge hay các kim tự tháp sừng sững ở Ai Cập. Nhưng cũng có những thứ nhỏ bé khác ẩn chứa bí ẩn.

Kim et al. published "Co Loa: Biography of an Anomalous Place" in the Journal of Urban Archaeology https://doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.133450 . The authors observe, "Situated in present-day Vietnam’s Red River Valley, the settlement known as Co Loa constitutes an early form of city and urbanism in South-East Asia. Given its unprecedented scale and forms of monumentality, Co Loa stands as an anomaly for the greater region during the first millennium bc. This paper presents available material data to highlight the factors and conditions that contributed to its emergence as a major settlement during the region’s late prehistoric period, and considers how the case can contribute to the theoretical literature concerning long-term trajectories of settlement change in the region." The image depicts Co Loa’s extant ramparts.

NGUYỄN THẾ ANH (1936-2023) : Parcours d’un historien du Viêt-Nam et de l’Asie Cette page rassemble les différents hommages et textes publiés ou réédités à l’occasion de la disparition du Professeur Nguyên Thê Anh le dimanche 19 mars 2023. Les liens sont présentés dans une chronologie décroissante. Nous remercions Cao Viêt Anh pour les liens d’articles en vietn...

Grono et al. published "Early settlement construction in Southeast Asia: lime mortar floor sequences at Loc Giang, southern Vietnam" in Antiquity https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2022.139 . This open access article notes that research on prehistoric mainland Southeast Asia is dominated by mortuary reports, leaving processes such as the transition to sedentism relatively understudied. Recent excavations in southern Vietnam, however, have recovered new evidence for settlement. The authors report on investigations at the neolithic site of Loc Giang (3980–3270 cal BP) in southern Vietnam, where excavation revealed a vertical sequence of more than 30 surfaces. Microarchaeological analyses indicate that these features are carefully prepared lime mortar floors; the lime was probably produced from burnt shell. The floors date to between 3510 and 3150 cal BP, providing the earliest-known evidence for the use of lime mortar, and for durable settlement construction, in this region. The figure illustrates the study of a section using microscopic techniques to study site formation.

🇲🇾🇮🇩| Some various types of laksa in Malaysia and Indonesia.
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Laksa is a spicy noodle soup popular in Peranakan cuisine of Southeast Asia. Laksa consists of thick wheat noodles or rice vermicelli with chicken, prawn or fish, served in spicy soup based on either rich and spicy curry coconut milk or on sour asam (tamarind or gelugur). Laksa is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Southern Thailand.
The name comes from the Hokkien luak sua, meaning "spicy sand", which refers to the taste and texture of ground dried prawns. There are various theories about the origins of laksa. In Indonesia, the dish is believed to have been born from the Chinese coastal settlements and the mixing of cultures between Chinese merchants and the local cooking practices. Historians believe laksa is a dish that was born from actual intermarriage. In early coastal pecinan (Chinese settlement) in maritime Southeast Asia, it was only Chinese men that ventured abroad out from China to trade. When settling down in the new town, these Chinese traders and sailors set out to find local wives, and these women began incorporating local spices and coconut milk into Chinese noodle soup served to their husbands. This creates the hybrid Chinese-local (Malay or Javanese) culture called Peranakan culture. As Peranakan Chinese communities have blended their ancestors' culture with local culture, Peranakan communities in different places now demonstrate diversity according to the local flavour.

In Malaysia, the dish is believed to have been introduced by Chinese immigrants in Malacca. In Singapore, the dish (or its local "Katong" version) is believed to have been created after interaction between the Peranakans with the local Singaporeans.

Because laksa has different varieties across the region, it is difficult to pinpoint the exact origin of the dish. Nevertheless, numbers of laksa recipes has been developed along the trade channels of Southeast Asia—where the ports of Penang, Medan, Malacca, Singapore, Palembang, and Batavia (now Jakarta) are the major stops along the historic spice route. The intensive trade links among these port cities enables exchanges of ideas to took place, including sharing recipes.
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