The Jōmon Venus (縄文のビーナス, Jōmon no Bīnasu) is a dogū, a humanoid clay female figurine from the Middle Jōmon period (3,000–2,000 BC), discovered in 1986...
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who discovered an ivory figurine and named it La Vénus impudique or Venus Impudica ("immodest Venus"). The Marquis then contrasted the ivory figurine...
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Dogū (category Jōmon period)
made during the later part of the Jōmon period (14,000–400 BC) of prehistoric Japan. Dogū come exclusively from the Jōmon period, and were no longer made...
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Museum of Jōmon Archaeology. Alongside the "Hollow Dogū" from Hokkaidō, the "dogū with palms pressed together" from Aomori Prefecture, "Jōmon Goddess [ja]"...
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The earliest period of Japanese historiography is the hunter-gatherer Jōmon period, which is thought to have been primarily animistic. In the later...
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archeological remains and pottery styles of Valdivia and those of the ancient Jōmon culture, active in this same period on the island of Kyūshū, Japan). They...
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ceramic containers for their catch. In Japan, the Jōmon period has a long history of development of Jōmon pottery which was characterized by impressions...
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012. Habu, Junko (2004). Ancient Jomon of Japan. Cambridge University Press. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-521-77670-7. "Jōmon Culture (ca. 10,500–ca. 300 B.C.)"...
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Jōmon period starts in Ancient Japan 12,000 BP, pre-Jōmon ceramic culture (Japan) 10,000 BP, Hoabinhian culture (Northern Vietnam) 9,000 BP, Jōmon culture...
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Ancient North Eurasian (section Jomon people)
050-13,770 BP. They carried 30% ANE ancestry and 70% East Asian ancestry. Jōmon people, the pre-Neolithic population of Japan, mainly derived their ancestry...
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Kamikuroiwaiwakage Site (category Jōmon period sites)
had been occupied from the early to late Jōmon period. Artifacts were found in all layers, and included Jōmon pottery with fine ridge line designs, tongued...
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(8th-7th century BCE) Kergonan Cromlech [fr; de] The Ōyu Stone Circles (大湯環状列石 Ōyu Kanjyō Resseki) is a late Jōmon period (approx. 2,000 – 1,500 BC) archaeological...
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Mal'ta–Buret' culture (section Venus figurines)
Shigeki; Rasmussen, Simon; Allentoft, Morten E. (25 August 2020). "Ancient Jomon genome sequence analysis sheds light on migration patterns of early East...
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Titicaca Basin (Craig 2005) in South America; Anglo-Saxons in Europe; and the Jōmon people in Japan. Some Anglo-Saxon pit-houses may have not been dwellings...
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and Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, and Sailor Venus working together. Manga for male readers sub-divides according to the age...
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In Japan, the transition from Jōmon hunter-gatherers to Yayoi agriculturalists was marked by the production of Jōmon ceramic figurines apparently intended...
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corpulent prehistoric goddess figures, of which the most famous is the Venus of Willendorf. It is a neolithic sculpture shaped by an unknown artist,...
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In archaeology, a grattoir de côté (French for side scraper) is a ridged variety of steep-scraper distinguished by a working edge on one side. They were...
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Atapuerca Mountains (redirect from Sierra de Atapuerca)
The Atapuerca Mountains (Spanish: Sierra de Atapuerca) is a karstic hill formation near the village of Atapuerca in the province of Burgos (autonomous...
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Spear-thrower (section Bâtons de commandement)
hyena in France. Many pieces of decorated bone may have belonged to bâtons de commandement.[citation needed] The Aztec atlatl was often decorated with snake...
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of the Neanderthals. One of the oldest examples of figurative art, the Venus of Hohle Fels, comes from the Aurignacian or Proto-Gravettian and is dated...
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Belgian astronomer at Leiden Observatory MPC · 3877 3878 Jyoumon 1982 VR4 Jōmon period, prehistoric Japan MPC · 3878 3879 Machar 1983 QA Josef Svatopluk...
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(c. 25,000 or c. 30,000 BP) and the oldest example of ceramic art, the Venus of Dolní Věstonice (c. 29,000 – c. 25,000 BP). Kilu Cave at Buku island...
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Burin (lithic flake) (redirect from Burin en-bec-de-flute)
found is the "Noailles" burin, named for its original find-site, the Grotte de Noailles, in the commune of Brive-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze, in southwestern France...
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Cave of El Castillo (redirect from Cuevas de El Castillo)
contains the oldest known cave painting: a large red stippled disk in the Panel de las Manos was dated to more than 40,000 years old using uranium-thorium dating...
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Urfa Man, in the Şanlıurfa Museum; sandstone, 1.80 meters, c. 9,000 BCE A Jōmon dogū figure, 1st millennium BCE, Japan The Trundholm sun chariot, perhaps...
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Font-de-Gaume is a cave near Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil in the Dordogne department of south-west France. The cave contains prehistoric polychrome cave...
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Lorblanchet, La naissance de l'Art. Genèse de l'art préhistorique, Errances, 1999 Marquet J.-C., M. Lorblanchet, Le "Masque" moustérien de La Roche-Cotard, Langeais...
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(English: /læˈskoʊ/ la-SKOH, US also /lɑːˈskoʊ/ lah-SKOH; French: Grotte de Lascaux [ɡʁɔt də lasko], "Lascaux Cave") is a network of caves near the village...
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the Jōmon people in ancient Japan were among the first to develop pottery, dated from the 11th millennium BCE. With growing sophistication, the Jōmon created...
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