Ancient civilizations around the world began with the spread of knowledge of the development of the solar calendar during the Jomon period
The reason for the emergence of earthenware in ancient civilizations around the world was
The plant-based staple foods adopted by ancient civilizations around the world
What was the vegetation like in each region during the late Paleolithic period?
In Western Asia, wheat was an effective food due to the presence of wheat species in the surrounding area.
In the Yellow River civilization, the original species of millet,green foxtail was easily available.
The Jomon people in the Japanese archipelago lacked those lucrative food plants, which led to the adoption of legumes.
In oats, there was a diffuse nature that was considered characteristic of wild species, and millet was also diffuse in the original species of green foxtail. However, since these species were fortunate enough to have a glauca, they were not difficult to gather even in the woven baskets that had been made until then. Legumes are still diffuse, and wheat lost its wild diffusion characteristics after a short period of cultivation.
The vegetation around the Jomon people was more weedy than in those areas, and legumes were somehow available among them.
Legumes produced very fine seeds and their casings were easily exploded, making them very difficult to collect.
In order to collect these fine seeds, the conventional woven baskets would leak, and it was necessary to find a way to stop the leakage. We believe that clay was an effective way to stop the leakage.
From this, a situation in which earthenware was born occurred.
The location of the first appearance of the pottery has so far been fairly well defined as being in East Asia.
In particular, it is not yet clear whether it was the Yellow River, the Western Liao River, or the Jomon people.
However, since millet was the staple food of the Hwang Ho civilization and others, it is a reasonable explanation that the Jomon people were the first to produce earthenware. The invention of earthenware is thought to have originated in the Japanese archipelago during the Jomon period.
The Jomon period is also the period in which the development of the Neolithic period was recorded using earthenware as a medium, which would suggest that the Neolithic period was a culture pioneered by the Jomon.
Furthermore, the Jomon were the first to develop a solar calendar, taking advantage of their advantageous location. The history of this development was also recorded on the pottery. Since this is thought to have occurred around 9,000 years ago in the early Jomon period, it is thought that civilizations around the world began full-scale agriculture based on the diffusion of knowledge of the solar calendar, opening up ancient civilizations in various regions of the world.
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