ART HIS 42C Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Japanese Aesthetics, Art History, Pleistocene
23 Dec 2019
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Crossing land bridges and spreading throughout the islands, the earliest human populations apparently came to japan from eastern and southeastern asia near the end of the pleistocene, by at least thirty thousand years ago. Around fourteen thousand years ago, populations from northeastern asia migrated to japan via hokkaid ; during the j mon period mongoloid populations from. Neolithic and bronze age cultures came to japan from northeastern asia. Intensive rice cultivating people also entered western japan from korea around. Thus, throughout the entire j mon period, populations from more than one location in eastern asia were arriving in japan (kokuritsu kagaku hakubutsukan. Until recently the j mon were considered marginal to modern japanese culture, which was thought to have begun with the irrigation of rice during the yayoi. The subsistence patterns of mountain people in general, including the collection of wild foods and processing of nuts into starch, have been important in rural.
