Jomon

Because flat areas in this region are scarce, all terraces on the peninsula are presently intensively utilized for either housing or cultivation. This was also true in the past. At least 84 other prehistoric sites are known within 10 km of Yagi. Most of these sites date to the Jomon period (11,000-300 B.C.). The Jomon period of Japanese prehistory is of special interest to archaeologists because Jomon people manufactured the first ceramics in the world— as early as 12,000 b.p. at sites in southern Japan... 

Incipient, Initial, Early, Middle, Late, and Final.) Two Early Jomon occupations are represented one between 4450 and 4000 b.c. and another between 3690 and 3190 b.c. The majority of features and artifacts date from these periods. The site was probably not continuously inhabited but was reoccupied at regular intervals. A limited Late Jomon component should date to around 1500-1000 b.c. 

Table I. Volcanic Episodes During Jomon Occupations ...

Eight ceramic samples from the Early Jomon occupations at Yagi were also analyzed as part of a continuing project involving both miner-alogical and chemical analysis (30). Basal units at Yagi appeared to have adequate amounts of clay to manufacture pottery, and hence may have... 

Crawford, Gary. Paleoethnobotany of the Kameda Peninsula Jomon Ann... 

Turner, C.G., Dental anthropological indications of agriculture among the Jomon people of central Japan, Am. J. Phys. Anthropol., 51, 619, 1979. 

The earliest archeological evidence of pottery production dates back to about 10,000 bce and the discovery of fragments from a cave dwelling near Nagasaki, Japan. This type of pottery is called Jomon pottery because of the characteristic surface patterns, which were made with a twisted cord. Jomon means cord pattern. The pottery also featured patterns made with sticks, bones, or fingernails. These vessels, like those produced in the Near East about 10,000 years ago, were fired at a low temperature compared to modern day pottery production. 

BC first fired pottery produced in Japan in Jomon period... 

BC Valdivia pottery in Ecuador. So-called Venus of Valdivia resembles Venus of Jomon from Tanabatake, Japan. Each are made from local clays... 

Subtle, in Ben Jomon s play Th AUhmist (1612) expresses the same idea when he says ... 

Roy, A. P. Jomon Aliyas (2013). Terrorism deterrence in a two country framework strategic interactions between r d, defense and pre-emption. Armais of... 

This manifestation at the end of the Stone Age apparently remained very isolated and it would be several thousands of years later that the Japanese Jomon ceramics (more than 12,000 years old and discovered in the Fukui caves, near Nagasaki) marked the begimiing of a production that has subsisted until now. As early as this period, there was a more complex use of argillaceorrs earth, which was prepared by adding, probably volrmtarily, organic fibers and mica [HAR 97],... 

Here again, the diversity is remarkable the addition of small clay buttons like on the Cam ceramics, the addition of fine clots on certain Jomon potteries from a more recent period or on some large earthenware jars of Cnossos. 

HAR 97] HARRIS V., Jomon Pottery in Ancient Japan , Pottery in the making, world ceramic traditions. Freestone I, Gaimster D. (ed.), British Museum Press, 1997. 

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