Jōmon period
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The Jōmon period ((縄文時代, Jōmon-jidai) is the time in Japanese prehistory which started in roughly 14,000 BC[1] to 10,000 BC.[2]
The period ended in roughly 500 BC[3] or 400 BC[2] to 300 BC.
"Jōmon" means "patterns of plaited cord"[2] or "cord-patterned" [4] from the way they decorated their pottery. The Jōmon people were closely related to the ancestors of other East Asians, but became isolated on the Japanese archipelago in 15,000BCE and recived some geneflow from an European-related population from Siberia along a North to South cline. It is suggested that the Jōmon, like other East Asians and Native Americans, ultimately originated in Southeast Asia. Cultural similarities exist with Native Americans.[5][6][7]
Gallery
- Jōmon Pottery British Museumo.jpg
Jōmon pottery
Jōmon Period Media
- 140913 Sannai-Maruyama site Aomori Japan01bs6bs6.jpg
Reconstruction of the Sannai-Maruyama Site in the Aomori Prefecture. It shares cultural similarities with settlements of Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula, as well as with later Japanese culture.
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Incipient Jōmon pottery (14th–8th millennium BC) Tokyo National Museum, Japan
- Jomon Flame Style Pottery, 3000 BC.jpg
Jomon flame-style pottery, 3,000 BC, excavated at the Iwanohara site, Niigata Prefecture
Jōmon pottery in the Yamanashi museum
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Spray style Jōmon pottery
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Azuki bean cultivation was common in southern Jōmon period Japan and also in southern China and Bhutan.
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The Magatama is jewelry from Jōmon period Japan, and was also found in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia.[source?]
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Reconstruction of Jōmon period houses in the Aomori Prefecture
Related pages
References
- ↑ Habu, Junko. (2004). Ancient Jomon of Japan, p. 42; "Jomon Fantasy: Resketching Japan's Prehistory," June 22, 1999. Retrieved 2011-12-14.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Facts About Japan, "Ancient Japan" Archived 2016-11-04 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2012-12-14.
- ↑ Kelly, Charles F. Jomon Culture," Japanese Archaeology. April 21, 2009. Retrieved 2011-12-14.
- ↑ Hall, John, Whitney. (1996). Ancient Japan, p. 270.
- ↑ (PDF) Jomon Culture and the peopling of the Japanese archipelago: advancements in the fields of morphometrics and ancient DNA. (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281036097_Jomon_Culture_and_the_peopling_of_the_Japanese_archipelago_advancements_in_the_fields_of_morphometrics_and_ancient_DNA)
- ↑ 崎谷満『DNA・考古・言語の学際研究が示す新・日本列島史』（勉誠出版 2009年）(in Japanese)
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 630: attempt to index field 'known_free_doi_registrants_t' (a nil value).
Other websites
16x16px Media related to Jōmon period at Wikimedia Commons
- University of Tokyo, Memory of the Jomon Period
- Niigata Prefectural Museum of History, The Prehistoric Archaeology of Japan Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine
