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		The new Yayoi culture that arose in Kyushu, while the Jomon culture was still undergoing development elsewhere, spread gradually eastward, overwhelming the Jomon culture as it went, until it reached the northern districts of Honshu (the largest island of Japan).
		Much as in the Jomon period, there were two types of dwelling--the pit type and the type built on the surface--but in addition to these, raised-floor structures appeared and were used for storing grain out of the reach of rodents.
		Whereas Jomon and Yayoi burial practices were rather primitive, from the 3rd century large tombs, both circular and uniquely keystone-shaped, began to proliferate throughout Japan, marked most especially by the enormous tumuli in and around the Osaka area.
	www.crystalinks.com /japan1.html (4157 words)

	Japanese history: Jomon, Yayoi, Kofun
		During the Jomon Period (13000 BC to 300 BC), the inhabitants of the Japanese islands were gatherers, fishers and hunters.
		Jomon is the name of the era's pottery.
		During the Yayoi Period (300 BC to 300 AD), the rice culture was imported into Japan around 100 BC.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2131.html (451 words)

	Jomon Culture (ca. 10,500–ca. 300 B.C.) \| Thematic Essay \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Jomon people were semi-sedentary, living mostly in pit dwellings arranged around central open spaces, and obtained their food by gathering, fishing, and hunting.
		While the many excavations of Jomon sites have added to our knowledge of specific artifacts, they have not helped to resolve certain fundamental questions concerning the people of the protoliterate era, such as their ethnic classification and the origin of their language.
		All Jomon pots were made by hand, without the aid of a wheel, the potter building up the vessel from the bottom with coil upon coil of soft clay.
	www.metmuseum.org /TOAH/hd/jomo/hd_jomo.htm (848 words)

	Body modification in Jomon Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		However, this kind of artefact is typical of Early Jomon period, centring on the Kanto plain, while in the Final Jomon period spool- or pulley-shaped earrings that had to be inserted in the lobe were the most popular variety.
		It is also known that in later phases of the Jomon period population growth and a greater ability in exploiting and preserving food resources, lead to reduced mobility, larger communities and greater specialization, with thriving exchange networks and participation to rituals and construction of ritual sites involving more than a single small community.
		Probably in the Jomon period and later as well the individual did not have much control on the construction of the relation between body and society, since modifications were possibly mandatory and controlled by a developing social/religious 'elite'.
	www.bmezine.com /culture/A50421/cltbodym.html (4460 words)

	Jomon Fire & Pottery Festival, Iwate Prefecture
		The late Jomon researcher Shiono Hanjuro planted the seed for the festival and had the help of local yakishime potter Honma Shinichi.
		The "Jomon Boys" -- a group of local junior high school kids -- were lighting the ceremonial fire the old way.
		After about a twenty-minute wait, which saw the Jomon cheerleaders chanting and praying, the fire was lit.
	www.e-yakimono.net /html/jomon-festival.html (669 words)

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		The Jomon pottery culture not only begins early, but it continues till well down into the first millennium BC, for the Bronze Age did not begin till very late in Japan.
		Thus the majority of Jomon pottery is of the third and second millennia BC, when it achieved numerous exotic forms.
		Jomon means twisted cord in Japanese, and the main characteristic is the twisted cord decoration.
	www.compulink.co.uk /~archaeology/world/stories/fareast/jomon/jomon.htm (387 words)

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		The Jomon, the original inhabitants of Japan, are thought to have migrated from the Asian mainland at a time when the two regions were physically connected.
		Scholars agree that the Jomon period of Japan's history ran from at least 10,000 years ago to about 250 B.C. At that point, the Yayoi, apparently traveling in ships from the Korean peninsula, arrived at the islands.
		During the last century, anthropologists have fiercely debated whether the Jomon or the Yayoi were the true ancestors of the modern Japanese.
	www.pitt.edu /~annj/courses/notes/jomon_genes.html (1417 words)

	Famous Sites, Fauna and Flora
		Such long term settlement in one place was unique in the entire history of the Jomon period in Japan.
		Specifically a lot of dolphin bone from the stratum of the end of early Jomon and of the early Middle Jomon, and carved wooden poles like totem poles were unique in Mawaki.
		Jomon pottery in Mawaki has not only shown the characteristics of Jomon pottery to us, they also have greatly contributed to the archeological study in Japan.
	www.pref.ishikawa.jp /bunkazai/e-siseki/e-1-2.htm (419 words)

	Japanese Pottery - Clay Figurines from the Jomon Period
		Some of the most intriguing works from the Jomon period are clay figurines called dogu (pronounced dough-goo).
		As many were excavated in fragments, it's believed that after the wish was fulfilled, or not, the dogu was broken and thrown on the trash heap; that's where many were discovered.
		Another theory is that these were goddesses to whom Jomon people prayed to for food and health.
	www.e-yakimono.net /html/jomon-dogu.html (507 words)

	jomonjapan.org: jomonjapan.org
		The diversity and creativity of Jomon art is hugely appealing to modern audiences and is a source of inspiration to many people, within Japan and abroad.
		A number of Jomon pattern pots are his early masterpieces according to Yellin....
		Chronologies of the Jomon Period by Charles T. Keally, Sophia University.
	www.jomonjapan.org (1005 words)

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