Jomon Period Ceramics

To roughly 300 b c.

Jomon period ceramics.

Jomon pottery vessels are the oldest in the world and their impressed decoration which resembles rope is the origin of the word jomon meaning cord pattern. The jomon period c. 300 bce of ancient japan produced a distinctive pottery which distinguishes it from the earlier paleolithic age. The name jōmon roughly translates to cord markings which characterizes the pottery that was produced during the japanese neolithic era.

However as older and older examples of japanese pottery were excavated it became obvious that jomon ceramics began earlier during the paleolithic. Indeed very many potteries decorated with the impression of cord from this period were exhumed across the country the ancestors of the japanese being one of the very first populations in history to use this process. Jomon pottery in the form of simple vessels was first produced c. Odai yamamoto i site in aomori prefecture currently has the oldest pottery in japan.

Artisans during this time created a unique type of pottery that distinguished it from the earlier paleolithic age featuring. By this period the gradual climatic warming that had begun around 10 000 b c. Jomon pottery used to be considered diagnostic of the neolithic which occurred in japan during the period 10 000 1 000 bce. The jōmon period the earliest and most expansive period of japanese history dates from 10 500 b c.

The jomon period takes its name from the two kanji jo meaning strings and my which can be translated by decor or sign. 13 000 bce around. They produced deep pottery cooking containers with pointed bottoms and rudimentary cord markings among the oldest examples of pottery known in the world. The pottery vessels crafted in ancient japan during the jōmon period are generally accepted to be the oldest pottery in japan and among the oldest in the world.