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The Magatama is jewelry from Jōmon period Japan, and was also found in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia. Reconstruction of Jōmon period houses in the Aomori Prefecture. This period saw a rise in complexity in the design of pit-houses, the most commonly used method of housing at the time, [39] with some even having paved stone floors. [40]
The Higashimyō site is located on a low-lying marshland in the central Saga Plain, north of the modern Saga city. It is about 12 kilometers inland from the current coastline, but the coastline at the time of the Jōmon Maximum Transgression, about 7,000 years ago was near the site, and there is a large river nearby, and the site is estimated to be on the left bank of that river.
It is a waterlogged midden site that was occupied mainly from the Incipient Jomon period to the Early Jomon period from 12,000 to 5,000 years ago (10,000–3,000 BC). [ 2 ] The site is located in the area of Lake Mikata, one of the Mikata five lakes , near the confluence of Hasu and Takase Rivers, within the borders of the Wakasa Wan Quasi ...
The Sannai-Maruyama Site is the centerpiece of the Jōmon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan, a group of Jōmon period archaeological sites in Hokkaidō and northern Tōhoku that was recommended by Japan in 2020 for inclusion to the UNESCO World Heritage List, under criteria iii and iv.
The style of pottery created by the Jōmon people is identifiable for its "cord-marked" patterns, hence the name "Jōmon" (縄文, "straw rope pattern").The pottery styles characteristic of the first phases of Jōmon culture used decoration created by impressing cords into the surface of wet clay, and are generally accepted to be among the oldest forms of pottery in East Asia and the world. [9]
The discovery of the ruins dates back to the early twentieth century. In 1952, Jōmon pottery excavated from the Kusaka shell mound included the Kamegaoka style pottery from the late Jōmon period in the Tōhoku region. This was the first time that pottery from the late Jomon period in the Tōhoku region had been confirmed in the Kansai region.
In 2003, the excavation of a large Yayoi period settlement in Tawaramoto, Nara also revealed two large jade magatama, one 4.64 centimetres (1.83 in), the second 3.63 centimetres (1.43 in) in length. The larger Tawaramoto magatama is the 10th-largest example found to date in Japan.
Persona 3, [a] released outside Japan as Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3, is a 2006 role-playing video game developed by Atlus that is the fourth main installment in the Persona series, which is part of the larger Megami Tensei franchise. It was originally released for the PlayStation 2 in Japan in 2006 and in North America in 2007.