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Before history: the stone and bronze ages of the plateau
People lived on the plateau for hundreds of thousands of years before anyone wrote about it. Stone tools, bronze-casting molds and a set of stone musical instruments are all that survive of most of that time. This page sets out what archaeologists and linguists have found, how sure they are, and who did the digging.
The first war in the highlands, 1946–1954
Between 1946 and 1954 France and the Viet Minh fought for the highlands, and both courted the highland peoples with the same offer: autonomy, in return for soldiers. Thousands of highlanders fought for the French, some for the Viet Minh; in 1954 the war ended on our roads, with the destruction of a French column at the Mang Yang pass, and severa...
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