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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 relationship of Jōmon people to the modern Japanese (Yamato people), Ryukyuans, and Ainu is not clear. Morphological studies of dental variation and genetic studies suggest that the Jōmon people were rather diverse, and mitochondrial DNA studies indicate the Jōmon people were closely related to modern-day East Asians.
The Yayoi people refers specifically to the mixed descendants of Jomon hunter-gatherers with mainland Asian migrants, which adopted (rice) agriculture and other continental material culture. [8] There are several hypotheses about the geographic origin of the mainland Asian migrants: immigrants from the Southern or Central Korean Peninsula [9 ...
The Jōmon period lasted more than 10,000 years, representing "sedentary pre-agricultural lifeways and a complex spiritual culture of prehistoric people". [2] It was first placed on the World Heritage Tentative List in 2009. [3]
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.
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.
Various studies estimate the proportion of Jōmon ancestry in Japanese people at around 9-13%, with the remainder derived from later migrations from Asia including the Yayoi people. [37] [40] [2] Recent studies have revealed that Jomon people are considerably genetically different from any other population, including modern-day Japanese.
People of Jōmon-period Japan (9 P) S. Jōmon period sites (2 C, 36 P) Pages in category "Jōmon period" The following 94 pages are in this category, out of 94 total.