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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 Bahnar
The Bahnar live around Kon Tum and east of Pleiku, and in the mountains running down toward the coast of Bình Định. They speak a Mon-Khmer language, not a Chamic one; they do not have the matrilineal clans of their Jarai and Rhade neighbors; and their villages are marked by the communal house with its high, sweeping roof. Kon Tum’s Catholic chur...
The Sedang (Xơ Đăng)
The Sedang live in the mountains north of Kon Tum and across into Quảng Nam and Quảng Ngãi. They speak a North Bahnaric language, and gave their name to the short-lived “Kingdom of the Sedang” that a French adventurer proclaimed in 1888. They strongly resisted French rule.
The Mnong (Bunong)
The Mnong live on both sides of the border: in Đắk Nông and southern Đắk Lắk in Vietnam, and in Mondulkiri in Cambodia, where they call themselves Bunong and are the largest of the province’s indigenous peoples. They are the people of Condominas’s We Have Eaten the Forest, of the elephant hunters of Bản Đôn, and of N’Trang Lơng’s resistance of m...
The Stieng (Xtiêng)
The Stieng live at the south-western edge of the highlands, where the plateau falls toward the plains north of Saigon, in today’s Bình Phước and across the border in Cambodia. Their red soils were taken for French rubber plantations, and they rose against both French and Vietnamese settlement repeatedly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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