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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 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.

  5. Women in Judaism - Wikipedia

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    During the Middle Ages, a conflict emerged between Judaism's expectations of women and the reality in which they lived; this was similar to the lives of Christian women of the period. [30] This prompted the kabbalistic work Sefer Hakanah to demand that women fulfill the mitzvot in a way equal to men.

  6. Jewish women in the early modern period - Wikipedia

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    Women played a big role during worship by disrupting it. They would yell curses on their male counterparts and aired grievances they had. Because Jewish Italian women could not access the Torah during worship, they made the mappot, which was a binder with Torah scrolls. Some women even participated in daily fasting, prayer, and even abstaining ...

  7. Women in the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    Notable examples of women landowners in England in the Middle Ages include: countess Gytha, mother of Harold Godwinson, who held lands across the south west of England; Asa, who held land in Yorkshire; and Judith, who owned large amounts of land in the East Midlands (all three women and their claims are recorded in the Domesday Book); [73] and ...

  8. Genetic and anthropometric studies on Japanese people

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    Ancestry profile of Japanese genetic clusters illustrating their genetic similarities to five mainland Asian populations [46]. Gyaneshwer Chaubey and George van Driem (2020) suggest that the Jōmon people were rather heterogeneous, and that there was also a pre-Yayoi migration during the Jōmon period, which may be linked to the arrival of the Japonic languages, meaning that Japonic is one of ...

  9. 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.