this is about humanities

1. IMPACTS OF BACSON-HOABINH, DONGSON AND INDIAN CULTURE TO INDONESIAN EARLY CULTURE<br />Indonesia’s culture is a mix of lots of cultures, including bacson-hoabinh, Dongson and Indian culture. Bacson-hoabinh and dongson culture is a culture that comes from Vietnam.<br />The bacson-hoabinh culture comes from the pre-historic people of Vietnam that abandoned its nomadic life to settle in the Red River valley.<br />The Dongson culture came from the Red River valley and is centered in Ma River. It is the formation of the period of the Vietnamese nation. The Dong Son culture exerted great influence on its neighbor regions, like Laos, Thailand and Indonesia.<br />For the Indian culture of course come from the country itself, India. Their culture is not a mixed of other cultures because India is one of the oldest civilizations on Earth.<br />Things that the Bacson-hoabinh culture has brought to Indonesia are the hand axes, which are made with bone and horn. They also bring a material called flakes, which are used to cut through animal skins, flesh, etc. Like Dongson culture, they also affect the way Indonesian people farm, which I’ll explain in the Dongson culture influence part.<br />For Dongson, the main culture that they brought to Indonesia is bronze culture. They also influenced the way Indonesian people farm; people carrying plows, buffaloes and even working the fields and farmers milling rice with the hand pestles. They also involved in the design of Keris knife and the Moko drums of Alor, Indonesia.<br />Last not least, the Indian culture has brought quiet a lot of things to Indonesia. Mostly they located in Bali. The Indian culture has brought Hinduism and Buddhism in Indonesia. They also brought the culture of making statues, sculptures, etc, such as The Prambanan and Borobudur temple in Yogyakarta, and the Uluwatu temple in Bali. They also affect the Indonesian cuisine of curry and the spreading of Indo-Iranian language (Sansekerta), which is used by Indonesian people long time ago.<br />