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  2. Jōmon people - Wikipedia

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    Jōmon (縄文, Jōmon), sometimes written as Jomon (American English /ˈdʒoʊˌmɑːn/ JOH-mahn, British English /ˈdʒəʊmɒn/ JOH-mon), [11] literally meaning "cord-marked" or "cord pattern," is a Japanese word coined by American zoologist, archaeologist, and orientalist Edward S. Morse in his book Shell Mounds of Omori (1879) which he wrote after he discovered sherds of cord-marked ...

  3. Jōmon period - Wikipedia

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    During this time Magatama stone beads make a transition from being a common jewelry item found in homes into serving as a grave good. [44] This is a period where there are large burial mounds and monuments. [14] The Magatama is jewelry from Jōmon period Japan, and was also found in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia.

  4. Women in the Arab world - Wikipedia

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    Women's economic position was strengthened by the Qur'an, [need quotation to verify] but local custom has weakened that position in their insistence that women must work within the private sector of the world: the home or at least in some sphere related to home. Dr. Nadia Yousaf, an Egyptian sociologist teaching recently in the United States ...

  5. Women's literary salons and societies in the Arab world

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    Women of the urban middle and upper classes were confined to the domestic sphere, [16] and the vast majority remained unseen and unheard in public life. Necessity afforded female members of the lower and rural classes slightly more 'freedom', as they were needed to work the land in order to support their families.

  6. Women in pre-Islamic Arabia - Wikipedia

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    In the tribal society, women generally had no right to dictate who they chose to marry. [3] However, the tribe did offer the woman protection if she was maltreated by her husband. [4] During the pre-Islamic times between 3500 and 3000 BCE, many of the city-states containing the individual tribes continually changed who had the authority to dictate.

  7. Sannai-Maruyama Site - Wikipedia

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    The Sannai-Maruyama Site (三内丸山遺跡, Sannai-Maruyama iseki) is an archaeological site and museum located in the Maruyama and Yasuta neighborhoods to the southwest of central Aomori in Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan, containing the ruins of a very large Jōmon period settlement.

  8. Satohama shell mound - Wikipedia

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    During the early to middle Jōmon period (approximately 4000 to 2500 BC), sea levels were five to six meters higher than at present, and the ambient temperature was also 2 deg C higher. During this period, the Tōhoku region was inhabited by the Jōmon people , many of whom lived in coastal settlements.

  9. Yoshigo Shell Midden - Wikipedia

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    During the early to middle Jōmon period (approximately 4000 to 2500 BC), sea levels were five to six meters higher than at present, and the ambient temperature was also 2 deg C higher. During this period, the Kantō region was inhabited by the Jōmon people , many of whom lived in coastal settlements.