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  2. Jōmon people - Wikipedia

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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 period (c. 14,000 to 300 BC). They were united through a common Jōmon culture, which reached a considerable degree of sedentism and cultural complexity.

  3. Jōmon period - Wikipedia

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    During this time Magatama stone beads make a transition from being a common jewelry item found in homes into serving as a grave good. [38] This is a period where there are large burial mounds and monuments. [14] The Magatama is jewelry from Jōmon period Japan, and was also found in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia.

  4. Sannai-Maruyama Site - Wikipedia

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    The Sannai-Maruyama Site (三内丸山遺跡, Sannai-Maruyama iseki) is an archaeological site and museum located in the Maruyama and Yasuta neighborhoods to the southwest of central Aomori in Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan, containing the ruins of a very large Jōmon period settlement.

  5. Dogū - Wikipedia

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    Dogū, Ebisuda site in Tajiri, Miyagi Prefecture, 1000–400 BC.. Dogu (Japanese: 土偶, IPA:; literally "earthen figure") are small humanoid and animal figurines made during the later part of the Jōmon period (14,000–400 BC) of prehistoric Japan.

  6. Jōmon Venus - Wikipedia

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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 (c. 2500 BC), [2] discovered in 1986 in Chino, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. It was designated a National Treasure in 1995, the first Jōmon-period artifact to be so designated. [2] [3]

  7. Dogū with palms pressed together - Wikipedia

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    Traces of bitumen on the cracked left leg indicate a historic repair, suggesting the object was highly valued by its Jōmon-period owner and in use for some time. [2] [4] [5] Many cruciform dogū with outstretched arms have been found in northeast Tōhoku, dating from the early- to mid-Jōmon period. In the first half of the late Jōmon period ...

  8. Toraijin - Wikipedia

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    Toraijin (Japanese: 渡来人, とらいじん) refers to the people who came to Japan from mainland Asia in ancient times, as well as their descendants. [1] [2] They arrived in Japan as early as the Jōmon or Yayoi period, and their arrival became more significant from the end of the 4th century to the late 7th century.

  9. Jōmon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan - Wikipedia

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    Jōmon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan (北海道・北東北の縄文遺跡群) is a serial UNESCO World Heritage Site consisting of 17 Jōmon-period archaeological sites in Hokkaidō and northern Tōhoku, Japan. The Jōmon period lasted more than 10,000 years, representing "sedentary pre-agricultural lifeways and a complex spiritual ...