The Jomon Culture

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Japan is known for their beautiful lands, Tokyo, palaces and much more all started with a seed which grew and blossomed into what it is now. The Jomon Culture is one of seed 's root; The formation of Jomon culture started in 10 000 BCE. The Jomon Culture followed the paleolithic and mesolithic periods. It is estimated to have last 9000 years. It 's started with the Early Jomon (ca 5000-ca 3500 BCE) then Middle Jomon (ca 3500-ca 2500 BCE), Late Jomon (ca 2500-ca 1000 BCE) and lastly Final Jomon (ca 1000 BCE-ca 300 BCE). Early Jomon, it started in 5000 BCE it was the earliest form of development of the Jomon people. It does not show much advancement in history. The Jomon period was a slow development it was characterized of non-metal using, hunting and gathering with lack of agricultural society. The early Jomon built settlements to adapt to the warm weather change. The weather change …show more content…

The steady use of tools, such as polished stone axes, arrowheads and pottery with its distinct cord-markings and uniform ornaments, smaller vessels, and Dogū figurines: "Clay images of humans and animals between three and thirty centimeters high were already made as early as the Initial Jōmon Period and had become quite numerous by Middle Jōmon. First crafted as flat, two-dimensional images, they were given three-dimensional volume in Late Jōmon; the figurines discovered in Late Jōmon sites throughout Japan belong to the latter group. In the Final Jōmon, larger figurines with distinctive faces appeared. Clay images continued to be made into the Yayoi period, but are not to be confused with haniwa funerary sculptures of the ensuing Kofun Period (ca 250-538