#ceramic pots

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‘Flame-rimmed deep bowl / kaen doki’ (c.3500–2500 BCE) from the Middle Jomon period

Reborn in Fire: Jōmon Pottery

What can the ancient culture of Japan teach us about living in harmony?

The earliest ceramic vessels in Japan, simple rounded pots over 16,000 years old, were found in the Kantō plains and are among the oldest known examples in the world. Later pots from the same region become increasingly elaborate and decorated with markings from fingernails and rope pressed into the clay while still wet — in fact, the name of the prehistoric culture that produced them derives from a term meaning ‘straw-rope-pattern’: Jōmon.

Jōmon flame-style / kaen-gata vessel (c.3000 BCE) from the site of Sasayama, Niigata prefecture, Japan

Jōmon pottery jar (3500 BC-2500 BCE) from Northern Kantō region

Potty about Pots    -  Jethro Buck , 2019..

British , b.1986