The common economic structure of the Chut in Phong Nha – Ke Bang includes forms: shifting cultivation , cultivation in the mountainous area, in the delta area, farming, doing sideline and exploitation(hunting, fishing, picking)
Ethnologists have researched and showed the anthropology data of Chut as below: Stature quite short (157metres), Female is shorter than Male (about 8-10 cm), dark (standard number 12-18 Lusohan). Straight and black hair ,short forehead,short and flat face , cheekbone has average protruding. Chink of eyes slanting quite big, bridge of nose straight majority, lips are quite thicker than other groups.
As mention of Ha Van Tan and Pham Duc Duong, the ethnic people of the Chut ethnic group (named as Chut Poong) and their languages had been separated from Vietnamese-Muong language with the first language separated in around century V-VI, “Chut” means ‘Rem Da in Vietnamese”, means “The stone curtain in English”
The Arem people belongs to the Chut minority ethnic group who lives at Arem village of Tan Trach commue, Bo Trach district . This community include 41 households with about 200 heads, is one of races of the Chut ethnic minority ( Statistic 2005).
The common economic structure of the Chut in Phong Nha – Ke Bang includes forms: shifting cultivation , cultivation in the mountainous area, in the delta area, farming, doing sideline and exploitation(hunting, fishing, picking).
