translated "straw-rope pattern" into Japanese as Jōmon. The pottery style characteristic of the first phases of Jōmon culture was decorated by impressing cords...
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The Zoku-Jōmon period (続縄文時代) (c. 340 BC–700 AD), also referred to as the Epi-Jōmon period, is the time in Japanese prehistory that saw the flourishing...
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Jōmon people (縄文 人, Jōmon jin) is the generic name of the indigenous hunter-gatherer population that lived in the Japanese archipelago during the Jōmon...
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Since the 1980s, scholars have argued that a period previously classified as a transition from the Jōmon period should be reclassified as Early Yayoi. The...
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The Jōmon pottery (縄文土器, Jōmon doki) is a type of ancient earthenware pottery which was made during the Jōmon period in Japan. The term "Jōmon" (縄文) means...
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Japanese Paleolithic (redirect from Japanese Paleolithic period)
humans did not live in Japan before the Jōmon period, excavations usually stopped at the beginning of the Jōmon stratum (14,000 BC), and were not carried...
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Japanese art (redirect from Jōmon art)
that some early Jōmon figurines may have been used as fertility objects based on their breasts and broad hips. The Middle Jōmon period (2500–1500 BCE)...
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The Jōmon Venus (縄文のビーナス, Jōmon no Bīnasu) is a dogū, a humanoid clay female figurine from the Middle Jōmon period (3,000–2,000 BC), discovered in 1986...
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Magatama (category Jōmon period)
beads that appeared in prehistoric Japan from the Final Jōmon period through the Kofun period, approximately 1000 BCE to the 6th century CE. The beads...
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000 years old". The tree's name is a reference to the Jōmon period of Japanese prehistory. Jōmon Sugi is located on the north face of Mount Miyanoura,...
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History of Japan (redirect from Kamakura–Muromachi period)
world. A vase from the early Jōmon period (11000–7000 BC) Middle Jōmon vase (2000 BC) Dogū figurine of the late Jōmon period (1000–400 BC) The advent of...
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Japanese pottery and porcelain (section Jōmon period)
history of ceramic production. Earthenwares were made as early as the Jōmon period (10,500–300 BC), giving Japan one of the oldest ceramic traditions in...
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Dogū (category Jōmon period)
Jōmon period (14,000–400 BC) of prehistoric Japan. Dogū come exclusively from the Jōmon period, and were no longer made by the following Yayoi period...
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Japanese people (section Jōmon and Yayoi periods)
were developed by the Jōmon people in the Upper Paleolithic period, dating back as far as 16,000 years. The name "Jōmon" (縄文 Jōmon) means "cord-impressed...
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The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo jidai), also known as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代, Tokugawa jidai), is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan...
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from 17.3% to 24% represented by southern Jōmon, and 3.8% to 14.9% represented by northern Jōmon. Southern Jōmon were genetically similar to contemporary...
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Japanese lacquerware (section Jōmon-Edo period)
during the Early Jōmon period; this indicates that this was an established part of Jōmon culture. Experts are divided on whether Jōmon lacquer was derived...
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offensives to subjugate the Emishi, possible descendants of the displaced Jōmon, living in northern and eastern Japan. After making temporary gains in 794...
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Ryukyuan people (section Gusuku period)
which contributed towards the Jōmon period population of Japan, and less to ancient Southeast Asians. Southern Jōmon people were found to share many...
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the modern regions of Kantō and Hokuriku during the Jōmon period.[disputed (for: The Jōmon period is about 1,000 years before any mention of the Saeki...
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Holocene calendar (redirect from Jōmon calendar)
The Holocene calendar, also known as the Holocene Era or Human Era (HE), is a year numbering system that adds exactly 10,000 years to the currently dominant...
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Aomori Prefecture (section Jōmon period)
the descendants of the Jōmon people, a group of the Ainu people, or if both the Ainu and Emishi were descended from the Jōmon people. The northernmost...
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List of time periods (redirect from Time period)
(1674–1818) Colonial period: British Raj (1858 – 1947) Independence (1947 – present) Archaic Japan Jōmon period (10,501 BC – 400 BC) Yayoi period (450 BC – 250...
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Economic history of Japan (section Jōmon period)
situation of the post-Cold War period of the Japanese "lost decades". In Japanese history, the Jōmon period (縄文時代, Jōmon jidai) is the time between c. 14...
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to the Shiba Inu were represented in dogū made during the prehistoric Jōmon period of Japanese history. The Shiba Inu was bred to hunt and flush small game...
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The Azuchi–Momoyama period (安土桃山時代, Azuchi–Momoyama jidai) was the final phase of the Sengoku period (戦国時代, Sengoku jidai) in Japanese history from 1568...
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List of Japanese battles (section Jōmon Period)
The following is a list of Japanese battles, organised by date. Jimmu's Eastern Expedition (c. 7th century BCE) Takehaniyasuhiko Rebellion (c. 1st century...
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Lake Biwa (category Jōmon period)
an important archaeological site of the Jōmon period. It goes back to the beginning of the Initial Jōmon period (ca. 9300 BP). It lies near the southern...
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The Kamakura period (鎌倉時代, Kamakura jidai, 1185–1333) is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, officially established...
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prehistoric Jōmon period, to its contemporary modern culture, which absorbs influences from Asia and other regions of the world. Since the Jomon period, ancestral...
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