Jomon pottery and skeleton (IMAGE)

Trinity College Dublin

Jomon pottery and skeleton

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Jomon potteries excavated from the Odake shell midden (Early Jomon). A buried skeleton in this site had a specific burial practice in which the body was placed in a flexed position with bent legs.

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Shigeki Nakagome, Lead researcher, Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin.

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