Posted on 09/15/2006 12:04:59 PM PDT by 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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"three people..." Peter, Paul and Mary?
Wow, five topics in the Jomon keyword. FR is just the best. :')
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Yeah, but if use infrared photography, you can see that they were carved over an image of Bob Dylan. ;')
...and Joan Baez...
"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..."
Chikano?
CHIKANO???
I thought chicanos lived in Mexico.
I thought it was the largest city in Illinois.
...and I thought that Aomori was a Dean Martin song.
Good find. Some people think Jomon and Ainus are the same people.
...and Ainu, Ainu, originated on Mork and Mindy.
Feel free to stop me at any time. ;')
I do. The oldest Jomon skeleton ever found is 13,000 years old and was found in Japan. The Jomon are believed to have been the first pottery makers and their pottery is marked with a distinctive 'cord-marked' pattern. Similar 'cord-markings' have been found in the Olmec sites in Mexico.
Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People
Recent DNA research shows that they are descended from the ancient Jomon people of Japan. Physically, the Ainu differed from Japanese and other nearby Asian peoples in language and especially in ...
www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/ainu/html/ room01.html · Cached page
The world's first known pottery was developed by the Jomon people in the 14th millennium BC. The name, "Jomon" (¿IÎÄ J¨mon), which means "cord-impressed pattern", comes from the characteristic markings found on the pottery.
The Jomon people were Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, though at least one middle to late Jomon site ca. 1200-1000 BC had a primitive rice-growing agriculture (ÄÏœÏÊÖ Minami misote site). They relied primarily on fish for protein. It is believed that the Jomon had very likely migrated from North Asia or Central Asia and became the Ainu of today.
Research suggests that the Ainu retain a certain degree of uniqueness in their genetic make-up, while having some affinities with different regional populations in Japan as well as the Nivkhs of the Russian Far East.(Tajima 2004)
Based on more than a dozen genetic markers on a variety of chromosomes and from archaeological data showing habitation of the Japanese Archipelago dating back 30,000 years, it is argued that the Jomon actually came from Northeastern Asia and settled on the islands far earlier than some have proposed.
I assume you saw the recent articles about those writings from Olmecs. I have read that Olmec could of came from the Shang Dynasty in an article you posted. I wonder if Ancient Chinese had Jomons amongst them?
Interesting. I would not be surprised if some American Indians came from Jomon. I remember hearing Ainu came from North Asia and now Southeast Asia. I don't think Jomon is from North Asia. I am inclined to say Southeast Asia. Ainus for one have a cult of snake, which would suggest they are from a warmer part of the world. Snakes don't live in that area. Also, many of Ainu housings look similar to Polynesians and Sumerians/Marsh Arabs (M'adans).
There is this book called Three Countries I believe, which is from Ancient China. It is a book that you must read before you die. That book documents of Caucasian emperors, generals, and shamans, who had blonde or red hair with blue or green eyes. It occurred during the Han Dynasty.
I have on occasion speculated that the Mongoloids and Caucasians both may have 'sprung' from the Jomon.
Professor Stephen Oppenheimer says that the oldest (undisputed) Mongoloid skeleton ever found is only 10,000 years old.
I remember reading one of your articles suggesting that all Eurasians came from Ainus/Jomon people. That same could go with American Indians. In a sense, we are all Ainus. :)
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