Episode #089: Ancient Japan and the Jomon

We spend some time on listener comments and correspondence, reading them and responding in kind. Kyle then reads some fascinating news stories about ancient CMEs, and advanced mathematics describing why hipsters are the first to be annoying, anywhere. After that, we read excerpts from Graham Hancock's book Underworld about the mysterious Jomon people of ancient Japan, whose culture survived for at least 12,000 years. Jomon pottery is by far the oldest pottery ever discovered, by many thousands of years, and they had some oldest known organized planned settlements in the world.

Dragon Aurora

 

More sky dragons

 

Definitely a dragon

 

Drip painting on canvas by Nathan J Taylor, artist's impression of Ezekiel's Wheel

 

Another artist's impression of Ezekiel's wheel Jomon site of Sannai-Muryama, reconstructed

 

Interior of reconstructed Jomon longhouse at Sannai-Muryama Kuromata Yama in the distance, a sculpted 'pyramid' mountain

 

Kuromata Yama Very ancient Jomon stone circles

 

Jomon circle

 

Jomon stone circle Very ancient Jomon pottery, with "rope" impressions

 

Examples of Jomon pottery

 

Jomon "incense burner"

 

Jomon pottery vessel

 

Ancient fragment of Jomon pottery, with cord marks

 

Very ancient Jomon pottery

 

Highly stylized Jomon vessel

 

Jomon pottery

 

Jomon maze pattern vase Tiny birdpoint arrowhead we found, with a dime for relative size Jomon "Dogu" figurine

 

Dogu

 

Another example of strange Dogu figures

 

Dogu with characteristic giant slit eyes

 

Dogu figure

 

Very old dogu figurine

 

Dogu

 

Showing the relative size of the average Dogu figurine