It dates back to the Jomon era
UNESCO adds 17 Japanese historical sites to its World Heritage List
Pottery dating back to the era of the Jomon civilization.
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A Japanese archaeologist gently removes a piece of Jomon-era pottery.
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A reconstructed Jōmon house at the Shanai Maruyama excavation site.
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A piece of pottery restored.
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Yesterday, UNESCO included on its World Heritage List 17 archaeological sites in northern Japan dating back to the era of the Jomon people, a civilization that preceded the agricultural era, but was stable in the region and developed about 15,000 years ago.
These sites are distributed between the north of the large island of Honshu and the south of the island of Hokkaido, and they constitute “a unique witness to the development that occurred over 10,000 years to the culture of the Jomon people who were settled in the region, although they were living in a pre-agricultural stage, and their system of beliefs and rituals.” complex spirituality”, according to UNESCO.
The Jomon people were a settled, hunter-gatherer society in the 13th millennium BC, shortly after the end of the Ice Age.
UNESCO pointed out that the Jomon people used to express their spirituality through objects they made, such as painted pots and clay tablets bearing footprints, and the famous "Dogo" doll, which featured female figures, especially.
The Jomon people also developed ritual sites, including digging the ground and creating large circles of stones more than fifty meters in diameter, according to the organization.
On Monday, UNESCO included 42,700 hectares of wet forests distributed over four islands in southwestern Japan (Amami-Oshima, Tokunoshima, Iriomoti, and the northern part of Okinawa Island), to its World Heritage List for its richness in biodiversity.
• The Jomon people were a stable society based on hunting and gathering in the 13th millennium BC.
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