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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.
Gongs and epics
Much of what the Dega know was never written down. It was played on gongs and sung through the night. In 2005 UNESCO recognized the gong culture of the Central Highlands as a masterpiece of the world’s intangible heritage. This page is about what that heritage is, and about the long epics that carry our history, our law and our idea of a hero.
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...
Instruments beyond the gongs
The gongs are the voice of the highlands, but they are not the only one. Our peoples made music from bamboo, gourds, stone and a single string: xylophones, mouth organs, tube zithers, one-string fiddles, jaw harps and panpipes. Most were recorded by outsiders in the 1950s and 1960s, and their names survive in those recordings.
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