ART HIS 42C Lecture Notes - Lecture 39: Jōmon Period, Rikishi, Emakimono
26 Jul 2019
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The pottery used in the earliest part of the jomon period, the incipient (14500 bce - 5000 bce), had rounded bottoms and were used to cook outside, steadied on top of a pile of stones or sand. The next form of pottery, used in the early jomon (5000 bce - 3000 bce), had flat bottoms and was increasingly intended for indoor use. The jomon have been found to bury infants in large jars, adults inside pits and shell mounds near villages, and place ceremonial offerings and other ornaments in graves from the middle to late jomon periods. Starting sometime in the earlier jomon phases the clay dogu figurines were made and intially started as flat images ranging in size from 3 to 30 centimeters. By the middle jomon phase the figurines became more widespread and numerous, and by the late jomon phase, the figurines acquired three-dimensional features. Identification : name of the work, time period.
