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. Brothers of the Serpent Episode 089  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 wheelJomon site of Sannai-Muryama, reconstructed Interior of reconstructed Jomon longhouse at Sannai-MuryamaKuromata Yama in the distance, a sculpted 'pyramid' mountain Kuromata YamaVery ancient Jomon stone circles Jomon circle Jomon stone circleVery 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 vaseTiny birdpoint arrowhead we found, with a dime for relative sizeJomon "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