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