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The Jōmon people lived in the archipelago of what's now northeastern Japan, beginning around 14,000 BCE or as early as 16,000. Beginning around 12,000 BCE, they lived as sedentary foragers, perhaps the first in the world. James C. Scott notes they were "contemporaneous with and likely earlier than the [[Natufian]] period in the Fertile Crescent."<ref>James C. Scott, ''Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017).</ref> | |||
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Japan’s old- est and extremely long cultural epoch is the Jomon era (16,000–300 B.C.E.), when gatherers and hunters came from the north via the island of Sakhalin, lying at the mouth of the Siberian River Amur. In the Middle Jomon phase (4500–2000 B.C.E.), these people developed permanent settlements, the first agriculture (arid rice-growing), beautiful ceramics and a multitude of artistic goddess figurines (the “dogu figurines”). These were most probably made by women, while the men built stone circles in the form of sun-clocks. All this characterizes this phase as Neolithic, and it was Japan’s classical matriarchal epoch. In the Late Jomon phase (2000–300 B.C.E.), the population began to decrease, but the people’s artistic abilities and | Japan’s old- est and extremely long cultural epoch is the Jomon era (16,000–300 B.C.E.), when gatherers and hunters came from the north via the island of Sakhalin, lying at the mouth of the Siberian River Amur. In the Middle Jomon phase (4500–2000 B.C.E.), these people developed permanent settlements, the first agriculture (arid rice-growing), beautiful ceramics and a multitude of artistic goddess figurines (the “dogu figurines”). These were most probably made by women, while the men built stone circles in the form of sun-clocks. All this characterizes this phase as Neolithic, and it was Japan’s classical matriarchal epoch. In the Late Jomon phase (2000–300 B.C.E.), the population began to decrease, but the people’s artistic abilities and sensibilities remained.10 Today, descendants of the Jomon people still live on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido: the Ainu, the oldest indigenous people of Japan, who have no patriarchal customs and foster an egalitarian society.<ref>Heide Goettner-Abendroth, ''Matriarchal Societies: Studies on Indigenous Cultures Across the Globe'' (New York: Peter Lang, 2012), 147.</ref> | ||
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Goettner-Abendroth contends the society became more stratified in the Yayoi Period (300 B.C.E.-300 C.E.), as migrants brought new cultures and agricultural techniques from the south, and became patriarchal in the subsequent Kofun Period began (300–710 C.E.).<ref>Goettner-Abendroth, ''Matriarchal Societies'', 148.</ref> | Goettner-Abendroth contends the society became more stratified in the Yayoi Period (300 B.C.E.-300 C.E.), as migrants brought new cultures and agricultural techniques from the south, and became patriarchal in the subsequent Kofun Period began (300–710 C.E.).<ref>Goettner-Abendroth, ''Matriarchal Societies'', 148.</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 06:31, 20 March 2025
The Jōmon people lived in the archipelago of what's now northeastern Japan, beginning around 14,000 BCE or as early as 16,000. Beginning around 12,000 BCE, they lived as sedentary foragers, perhaps the first in the world. James C. Scott notes they were "contemporaneous with and likely earlier than the Natufian period in the Fertile Crescent."[1]
Heide Goettner-Abendroth writes:
Japan’s old- est and extremely long cultural epoch is the Jomon era (16,000–300 B.C.E.), when gatherers and hunters came from the north via the island of Sakhalin, lying at the mouth of the Siberian River Amur. In the Middle Jomon phase (4500–2000 B.C.E.), these people developed permanent settlements, the first agriculture (arid rice-growing), beautiful ceramics and a multitude of artistic goddess figurines (the “dogu figurines”). These were most probably made by women, while the men built stone circles in the form of sun-clocks. All this characterizes this phase as Neolithic, and it was Japan’s classical matriarchal epoch. In the Late Jomon phase (2000–300 B.C.E.), the population began to decrease, but the people’s artistic abilities and sensibilities remained.10 Today, descendants of the Jomon people still live on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido: the Ainu, the oldest indigenous people of Japan, who have no patriarchal customs and foster an egalitarian society.[2]
Goettner-Abendroth contends the society became more stratified in the Yayoi Period (300 B.C.E.-300 C.E.), as migrants brought new cultures and agricultural techniques from the south, and became patriarchal in the subsequent Kofun Period began (300–710 C.E.).[3]
- ↑ James C. Scott, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017).
- ↑ Heide Goettner-Abendroth, Matriarchal Societies: Studies on Indigenous Cultures Across the Globe (New York: Peter Lang, 2012), 147.
- ↑ Goettner-Abendroth, Matriarchal Societies, 148.
