3,500-year-old stone carving found [ Jomon ]

Yomiuri Shimbun ^ | Friday, September 15, 2006 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

A 3,500-year-old stone artifact from the late Jomon period (ca. 10,000 B.C.-ca. 300 B.C.) decorated with carved images of three people has been unearthed at the Chikano archaeological site in Aomori... The find is known as a stone crown because of its shape, with the upper part narrower than the bottom. It is rare for a stone artifact with drawings from the Jomon period to be discovered, and it is the first time a stone crown depicting more than one person has been found... The Chikano archaeological site is located near the Sannai-Maruyama dig--the biggest Jomon period village remains... The stone artifact is about six centimeters high, seven centimeters wide and four centimeters thick... The images of the people are carved on a flat surface with one-millimeter-wide lines. Two people are drawn horizontally and one person upside down. There are differences in the number of fingers and the shapes of shoulders in the images... [T]he upper horizontal person with a shoulder apparently held up is a man, the lower horizontal person a woman and the small person upside down a child, the center said.

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"Also, many of Ainu housings look similar to Polynesians and Sumerians/Marsh Arabs (M'adans)."

Yup. They all radiated out from Sundaland at the end of the last Ice Age, these Jomon 'like' people. Some became isolated during the Last Glacial Maximum(LGM), 18,000-23,000 years ago and evolved the characteristic Asian features and teeth (sinodont). DNA indicates that the Northern Asians are descended from the Southeast Asians.

You need to read Stephen Oppenheimer's book, Eden In The East.

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" In a sense, we are all Ainus. :)"

More like Jomon's IMO.

[albee]

"...and I thought that Aomori was a Dean Martin song.

Nah.....the correct title is. "Datsa aomori"!