The late archaeologist Wilhelm Solheim would probably be very surprised to find that statements he made way back in 1971 are cited today as “evidence” that the ancestors of the Vietnamese were the first people in Asia to cultivate rice. … Continue reading Vietnamese Prehistory and International Scholarship – Part 3: Sauer, Solheim & Hòa Bình

In 1971, archaeologist Wilhelm “Bill” Solheim made some comments in the magazine National Geographic about the origins of agriculture. His comments were premature, and turned out to be false. Then in the late 1990s those comments were discovered by some … Continue reading Vietnamese Prehistory and International Scholarship – Part 2: Thought & Solheim

For the past half century or so there has been an idea circulating in the Vietnamese world that holds that the ancestors of the Vietnamese were the first people to inhabit the Asian mainland, and that they established the foundations … Continue reading Vietnamese Prehistory and International Scholarship – Part 1: Introduction