The Jomon, a 10,000 Year Old Culture (and Pots!) | History of Japan 3 

10:50 How to water plants sans pot

Good to know who murdered Claudius. But who murdered Ant the ant?

whos watching in 12019 HE ?

Jomon life sounds extremely risky, I mean, a pretty complex society depending on hunting and gathering? Probably very vulnerable to external change...

No matter where you begin time its going to be arbitrary.

I have been studying prehistory and some really ancient civilizations. I have always wanted to learn about Japanese History. Your animations are fun to watch. Thanks!

Pottery are not the only container. Many civilisation have used wooden containers with great success and although maybe not as hygienic as pottery but generally about as functional (especially if appropriately treated). One reason for using pottery rather than wood might be a reduction of forest.

Love the video. I have to comment on the "christian-cenrtric" thing. I live in a Muslim majority country (Malaysia) while being Christian myself, we use both Islamic and Christian calendars, but universally we use the Christian calendar for official business. It ain't a problem for us here. Again, I love your content

I like your Japanese history videos. Discovered them yesterday. And I like your sense of fun, in doing them. Please keep up the good work.

Those segments where you were demonstrating the importance of pottery felt like the beginning of an infomercial. I loved it.

Your channel is amazing. Im so glad i found it! Greetings from brazil

The Sheika architecture and designs on the artifacts (Towers, Shrines, Sheika Slate) from BoTW all come from this awesome period! It's sad that it's so obscure, because that pottery is beautifull!

I scroll down to the comments, and everyone out here complaining about the calendar bit, but here I am loving all this free and (very) entertaining informative content. Binging through your playlist, thanks for posting, great work! :D

Apparently the guardians and skeikah tech from the legend of zelda: breath of the wild were based off of jomon period pottery. I guess you could say breaking all those pots have come back to kick him in the ass!

Agriculture is deeply connected to warfare. Agriculture -> organisation -> excess capacity -> wealth -> organised violence But I doubt pre agricultural people were less violent just because they weren't dicks to each other, but rather they have no time to be dicks to each other. Their days are pretty busy diy-ing stuff agricultural people could just buy off the shelf. And there are little incentive for organised warfare.

I promise to better appreciate my Tupperware and cups after watching this video!

Trust me you are doing a great job , the most amazing part of Japanese history is hidden from internet world and you're revealing it

I like your calendar idea

Have you heard the tale of the 47 Ants? **Starts playing biwa** Their master could not finish tutoring a friend because the neighbor killed it. To avenge their master, they went over to the neighbor's house and ate his textbooks but they got caught and the exterminators were called in to deal with them. All 47 died but the neighbor would not pass the test without his textbooks and thus the 47 died an honorable death, having avenged their master. **Sheds tear and stops playing**

You’re hilarious, I just subscribed recently. Thank you for not taking any of this too seriously, but still teaching us a lot

They did create orchards for acorn and chestnuts which they made a cake with. From spring to fall they lived in small settlements, then in the winter coming together into big community centers. In this way they could support larger settlements.

i agree with your issues about the gregorian calendar. it's a bit weird that it's so widely used, even in non-christian countries, & i personally have had a hard time understanding the split myself. anywho, you're super funny lol love your work dude.

"Bows before hoes." :P I can't, lol.

Poor ant.. hope they get they killer!

Spends more than 1/4 of the time not talking about the Jomon.

I remember Michael Jackson mentioning the Jomon in some of his songs.

The Jomon, a 10 minute video on calendars and cringe jokes

I like the 10,000 year starting point. Mainstream science is just starting to accept that human civilization is much, much older than thought.

The problem with changing up the calendar is, to be perfectly honest, is people would have even less to relate to a 'Human Era' than they would to the Christian Calender, even if they chaff under it as Christian Centric. By trying to boil it down to a broadest common denominator you instead of making it accessible and relatable, you end up just pushing things so far back that absolutely no one of any culture or current civilization has any resemblance or connection to it. Conversely at least with the Christian calendar, everyone can roughly relate to where their people or culture was in relation to when this event happened. Sides the only real reason the whole world uses it is not because its actively enforced on the non-Christian world (although it likely was directly back during the age of European empires, because there's no reason why the Europeans wouldn't use it while running their colonies) but its because of the economic importance in the modern day of western countries such as America, the only realistic way to delegitimise the calendar in popular use worldwide is to actively wish for the lessening of America's economic influence over the world (speaking as an Irishman I think that would actually be a good thing, but not because of calendar reasons) and even then it'd only stop being used widely if another influential country started promoting its calendar aggressively for cultural dominance, which lets be frank here, would be China promoting their own, not a bland H.E. calendar. No one is actually stopping anyone from using their local calendars. Nearly a full half of the Christian world uses a different calendar (look up the fights the Orthodox Christian countries have regarding this matter) and China still uses its traditional calendar, to complain about the Christian calendar for lack of inclusivity is kind of pedantic when you look at the other options realistically, because the world is not and never will view itself as 'one thing' indivisible and indistinct and to pretend otherwise is naive and short sighted. Sides to just hammer home the point, even if you were successful in say getting a 'Human Era' calendar established worldwide, the next thing would be to dismantle the Julian system for being Roman and Western Centric. Because it is, having been devised by Julius Caeser and an Egyptian Astronomer. Have fun with that box of worms and were it leads.

I feel like a lot of people need to see this video.

Amazing channel! He manages to condense so much information in 11 mins! I'm hooked!

Just stumbled onto your vids. Your random off the wall humor pleases the great toad. So I've subbed, so that the great toad will shine upon me :O

Guys, the HE calendar opened my mind to our history. We survived ice age then started to settle arround 11,000bc Mesopotamia.Egypt.monotheism....etc... Easier for everyone.

Loved that little sketches 😂😂 Greetings from Germany!

I love your clips of you trying to do things without pots!!!! hahahahahaha. I´m watching your videos from the beginning! You won a fan here in Chile! :D

The deer with arrows in their butts made my day!!! Genuine thank you for the time you put into the video

whos watching in 12024 HE

Dude is this video about Japan or your gripe with a calendar system.

The last part was hilarious! XD

I always loved the idea of the Human Era calander ever since I heard about it!

Just found your channel and this is GOLD! I wish my history teachers were half as funny as you, greetings from Algeria :D

my brain hurt for all the information but i’m extremely thankful for you posting this serie💓💓 greeting from chile 🇨🇱

I love your sense of humor. Please never stop.

Love your sense of humor. Thanks for these informative videos!

Ive just recently found my interest in Japanese history, and your page has really made learning mch easier snd certainly more fun . I appreciate ur context, thanks again. -Fantasia

Narration and explanation GOOD JOB. JOKES ? NICE TRY :)

Pots started many neolithic societies. And it's awesome!!!

The way we divide the Jomon period up is also (I assume) highly deceptive. These people would have had their own political uphevals and dramas and would have divided up this 10,000 year period into much smaller era's by their own reckoning, but the details on this have simply been lost to time or never recorded, leaving us with what looks like a long unbroken period of prehistory from where we are now. This is very similar to the the Assyrian Kings list with its prediluvian animal Kings who each reigned for thousands and tens of thousands of years.

Henny this video is a hot mess, and I'm here for it.

Nice job on your series. Enjoyed the animations also.

10k sound a bit recent, we have peoples from 40k with fire and dwellings so the 10k seems to be more myth than reality, simplest would be the end of the last ice age

Ahem, about warfare...too many times people talk about 'warfare' in a way that lumps all manner of inter-human violence under that one word. That's problematic, since things like blood-feud and ritual contests among horticulturalists tend to originate from different sources than out-and-out warfare between complex societies competing for resources or political dominance. Humans have been knocking each other in the head for all sorts of reasons since we first figured out how to create tools (or before). War, however, is definitely something that came along with complex societies that had to impose their political will on external opponents. Conflating the two is confusing. Just my two cents. Stepping down off the soapbox.

I often wonder how acurately civilizations of the past can be depicted. Because it's so long ago with so little evidence left to go on, they could have had way more stuff we have no idea about that's just decayed and gone so all that's left is clay and stone. I look at things around us now and wonder what would be left in 1000s years and how it might be understood from a different society that knows nothing of us. I'd love to know the misunderstandings

Our calenders need a starting date somewhere, and we sadly don't know the exact year the very first Homo Sapien was born.

I just found out about your channel today. I couldn't believe how perfect it was at first but here we are :D Thank you for making these videos. Also, have you seen Kurzgesagt's video about that human era calendar? They also sell that calendar now

"If owning things leads to conflic and violence..." is the first half of an argument for socialism, not refraining from buying the best phone :)

Pottery is important for example smoking weed.. Me without pot: Noooooooo

The abrupt transitions cracked me up! Violent death by wolfsbane, next! 😂

I am almost certain that Pokemon Trading is only a thing in the 21th Century hahahaha. But funny history show I really like it ! Well made thanks and you got a new Sub ;)

Agrippina was wild. She also orchestrated "prophecies" with her one advisor claiming she had dreams that encouraged the things the advisor told Claudius.

This is amazing I wish I found it before

Dude, you're the funniest… and I'm learning so much! 😂😃

RIP Ant You will be missed

Japan shouldn't have abandoned their traditional Japanese calendar. China & Korea still seem to celebrate traditional festivals according to their traditional calendars & so do many other communities in other countries.

Late to the party but my gosh this was such an entertaining history video! I especially like the calendar ideas. Subbed for sure!

As a person who effing hated the confusing bc ad timeline I appreciate the heck out of first three minutes of this video. Gonna watch the rest now....

Pottery: the most basic item in a Zelda game

I’m loving this content

Being Christian-centric isn't a problem. It's a feature of the fact that Christendom conquered the world while no other culture did. Even as a Buddhist, who lives in a country that calls this year 2561, I notice that The West has had a much greater influence in this country than any Oriental country has had on "back home." It's not that I am a Christian or that anyone around me is or that anyone In The West now necessarily is, it's that we trade with The West, who is much more politically and militarily amd commercially powerful, upholds the tradition of calling *this* year 2019. Don't get yourself twisted over tradition versus significance. I do think 12019H.E. is a much cooler year though.

Your comedy is pure gold ❤

I agree with Shorey 40 , you seem a bit fixated on the "legitimacy" of the Gregorian calendar system. Emiliani's system is equally as "invalid" There is no clear starting date so no accurate way to claim that this is the year 12018 or 11003 etc. Every culture has a way of counting its history. The Japanese themselves are in the 30th year of the Heisei era. I would be very interested to know if they had a larger calendar system that went all the way back to the Jomon period. I feel that to make a issue about a method of counting years is like debating why we count hours from "12" noon or "12" midnight- or why we use hours a unit of measurement at all. I like you videos but please focus on the topic .

This episode ended in a very beautiful note :D

stop being so funny. I'm watching these secretly at work and people keep noticing me snickering at my desk!

The Jomon people were more peaceful because they honored Kami.

Man you triggered a lot of Christians with that alternative calendar...

12022 HE here, pot means something else nowadays.

Just discovered your videos, they're very informative, and I subscribed because they're so good. But please, PLEASE stay on topic. I'm happy you're having fun making these videos, and the passion you have for Japanese history really shows through, but the little skits don't fit with the rest of the video, and I had to check the date to make sure these weren't from 10 years ago because the humor felt so dated. The calendar thing was also odd and opinionated, but that's been done to death in the comments. Overall, very good videos, some of my favorite historically-minded on the whole of RU-vid, but I would like to be able to share these with other people without feeling a little embarrassed because of the IRL skits.

Happy Halloween Linfamy!! I'm wondering as well, what I'm doing here instead of watching your new video.

At 3:42 I subscribed.

The way you described the Dogu being smashed suddenly had me thinking about Daruma and how they're burned -- I wonder if there's a connected tradition in some way.

Please tell me the that in the clips isnt you - because your telling and acting would be on total different levels - nothing personal, i like your vids :D

I have an exam tomorrow, thank you that helps a lot

I love the informative content of the videos. They are very well put together. However I think the length of the jokes could be shortened. I learned alot from watching your videos so far. Keep up the good work

The ancient Sheikah from Zelda BOTW have their aestethics based on the Jomon I think. The mechanical guardians and shrines look like the pottery

pleeeeease less IRL jokes and more talking and animation, good videos could be great! subbing to see more !

I think people should just be thankful for what they already have so they don't have to fight and obsess so much over what others have, or at least share..

Will this guy ever talk about the Jomon, or just bash other cultures?

❤️ I like your videos they are best

Oh my god thank you for your awesome videos!! I hope you will continue doing them!

Your videos are awesome! entertaining and enlightening! please keep them coming! Thank you for creating them.

This video was the funniest and most educational by far, simply because you were in it. When you do real life skits and bouts of hilarity, I think it really improves the quality of the videos, not that they're lacking in quality to begin with. They're pretty great! But I'm a big fan of your live action comedy skits.

Awesome video

What heros are watching this in 12023?

Wolfsbane on the arrows? Is there any evidence for this or is it pure speculation? Getting half a gram of poison in to the blood stream would be pretty challenging and even if it did the deer would probably have an hour or so to get away before it started suffering due to the poison. Tracking an animal for hours after it's been shot seems like a LOT of unnecessary work when you could either hunt smaller animals or make a bigger bow.

Pol Pot dictatorship of Cambodia started in year 0.

I love and appreciate your take away from the end of the video. Good work!

If you want to make a stink about the calendar, it doesn't make sense to pick some other arbitrary point to begin reckoning time. It actually makes much more sense to look at how various religions have figured out how to fix dates of specific festivals. Religions will almost never rely on a calendar date, because they know that there are local variations in calendar use that will have people as close as 200 miles away celebrating something on a different day. That is why astronomical observations are generally used. You can't celebrate something on the wrong day if the way to figure out what day it's supposed to be is "The first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox". I'm all for revising the calendar but it doesn't make sense to do anything other than start from a known and regular celestial event. Mankind has known about precession of the equinoxes for over 2000 years, so it would make most sense to start counting from some point where the sun had an equinox or a solstice at some point in the past (perhaps a conjunction with a bright star like Regulus?) since that gives us a 36,000 year cycle to work with. This has the advantage of being the way that every advanced culture on Earth has figured out the passage of time, and not just some random idea a random Christian-hating college professor pulled out of his ass.

Great vid!

The idea that agriculture and civilization is the origins of war is dumb. Hunter-gatherers fight other groups all the time.

We use the Gregorian calender because it mathematically squared the rotation of the the earth around the sun and the earths own rotation. That extra few minutes we add to make 24 hours despite the average day being less really adds up.