Anthropomorphic Chalk Container. Period: Bronze and Iron Age Period; Date: ca. 500 BC-AD 300; Culture: Indonesian (Javanese, Lumajang, Pasiran); Medium: Bronze

The Dong Son culture is the term for the Bronze Age culture in Southeast Asia. The name Dongson itself is taken from an area in the Song Hong valley, Vietnam.

The Dongson culture began to develop in Indochina during the transition from the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods to the Megalithic period. The influence of Dongson culture also developed into the archipelago, which became known as the Bronze Age

The Dongson culture as a whole can be stated as the result of the work of a group of Austronesian peoples who mainly settled on the coast of Annam, which developed between the 5th and 2nd centuries BC. This culture itself takes the name of the Dongson site in Tanh hoa.

The Dongson community is a community of reliable farmers and breeders. They are skilled at planting rice, raising buffalo and pigs, and fishing. They seem to have settled on the coastal bunds, sheltered from the dangers of flooding, in large stilt houses with wide arched roofs that overhang the overhangs. Apart from farming, the Dongson people are also known as a seafaring society, not fishermen but also sailors who sail the entire China Sea and parts of the southern seas in long boats.