The perception of ceramics used in this paper is referred to artifacts made from clay, without glaze and the firing temperature under 1000oC, which were found in archaeological sites that are located in space and time of Champa State (Central and south of Central Viet Nam, dating from the first 10 centuries AD. Based on the results of the research on ceramics from surveys and excavations, the paper refers to the following matters: - Some notes of the approaches of technical and social archaeology in research into ceramics
- Research into Champa ceramics through approaches of technical and social archaeology: Initial results, problems and prospect of factual research. The results of the analysis of Sa Huynh and Champa ceramic samples from the same location show a major change in exploitation and treatment of clay in Sa Huynh and Champa stages
- Some matters of Champa culture from the studies of ceramics. From the development of ceramics, it is possible to outline the cultural development from around the first to the seventh and eighth centuries AD in the Central Viet Nam as follows: + The early stage: from the middle and late first century to the late third century
+ The late stage: from the fourth to the ninth and tenth centuries and afterwards. Champa ceramics in the Southeast Asian context demonstrate they share the cultural development from the early stage to the late one. The adaption of techniques and forms from the outside in ceramics production had a turningpoint and dramatic developoment since the third century.