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ca. 13,000–ca. 900 BCE
Jōmon communities lived by gathering, fishing and hunting. Their pottery and clay figures offer a remarkable glimpse of early life in the Japanese archipelago.
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Creator not recorded by the museum · Middle Jōmon period (3500–2500 BCE)
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Original source title: Head of a Clay Figure (Dogū). Web image proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop, recoloring or AI processing.