Ancient Japan Dialogue Education Teachers Notes- The easiest way to use these presentations in your class is to ask students to make notes. The slides have been purposefully designed to contain enough information for the students to be able to write down the information word for word but not contain too much information that they are still writing when you want to move on. Please print out these pages including the “notes section” (you will find this option on the print window under the heading “Print What”. The notes will provide helpful definitions of technical terms and further information related to the slide being presented. At the bottom of each notes page is information about what is on the next slide so that teachers can relate the slide presented to the upcoming slide where necessary. Next Slide: Penalty Shootout Dialogue Education THIS CD HAS BEEN PRODUCED FOR TEACHERS TO USE IN THE CLASSROOM. IT IS A CONDITION OF THE USE OF THIS CD THAT IT BE USED ONLY BY THE PEOPLE FROM SCHOOLS THAT HAVE PURCHASED THE CD ROM FROM DIALOGUE EDUCATION. (THIS DOES NOT PROHIBIT ITS USE ON A SCHOOL’S INTRANET).

Penalty Shootout Click on the image above for a game of “Penalty Shootout”. Try playing the game with your students at the start and the end of the unit. Make sure you have started the slide show and are connected to the internet. Next Slide: The Paleolithic Period, is a prehistoric

Ancient Japan The Paleolithic Period, is a prehistoric era distinguished by the development of the first stone tools. The Paleolithic (from Greek: (paleo-) "old" + (lithos) "stone") Age, Era, or Period, is a prehistoric era distinguished by the development of the first stone tools, and covers roughly 99% of human technological history. It extends from the introduction of stone tools by hominids such as Homo habilis 2.5 or 2.6 million years ago, to the introduction of agriculture and the end of the Pleistocene around 12,000 BCE.The Paleolithic era is followed by the Mesolithic. Next Slide: The Paleolithic populations of Japan, appear…. Text Slide: The Paleolithic populations of Japan, appear…..

Ancient Japan The Paleolithic populations of Japan, appear to relate to an ancient Asian group which initially occupied large parts of Asia including modern day China and Korea before settling in Japan. Next Slide: You Tube Video- The Incredible Human Journey -

You Tube Video- The Incredible Human Journey - Asia - 12 HD Click on the image to the left. You will need to be connected to the internet to view this presentation. Enlarge to full screen. Next Slide: The Japanese Paleolithic age covers

Ancient Japan The Japanese Paleolithic age covers a period starting from around 100,000 to around 12,000 BCE, at the end of the last ice age. Some of the earliest stone tool implements have been found from this period. Next Slide: The Japanese islands were disconnected

Ancient Japan The Japanese islands were disconnected with the continent after the last ice age, around 11,000 BCE. A start date of around 35,000 BC is most generally accepted. Next Slide: The earliest human bones …..

The earliest human bones were discovered in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka. Ancient Japan The earliest human bones were discovered in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka. Radiocarbon dating has shown that the fossils date back to around 14,000 - 18,000 years ago. Next Slide: The Japanese Paleolithic….

Ancient Japan The Japanese Paleolithic is also highly original in that it incorporates the earliest known ground stone tools and polished stone tools in the world, dated to around 30,000 BCE. Next Slide: This sort of technology

Ancient Japan This sort of technology is typically associated with the beginning of the Neolithic, around 10,000 BCE, in the rest of the world. Next Slide: It is not known why such tools were created

and the islands may have particularly benefited from it. Ancient Japan It is not known why such tools were created so early in Japan, although the period is associated with a warmer climate worldwide (30,000–20,000 before present), and the islands may have particularly benefited from it. Next Slide: The earliest populations

Ancient Japan The earliest populations of Japan, as well as the later populations, appear to relate to an ancient Asian group. This group initially occupied large parts of Asia including the populations characteristic of today's people of China and Korea before settling in Japan. Next Slide: Japanese settlers are thought….

Ancient Japan Japanese settlers are thought to be descendants of ancient Korean and Chinese populations. Next Slide: Skeletal characteristics point

Ancient Japan Skeletal characteristics point to many similarities with other aboriginal people of the Asian continent. Next Slide: They are mainly distributed

Ancient Japan They are mainly distributed in ancient populations of South- East Asia. Next Slide: Skull features tend to be stronger

Skull features tend to be stronger, with comparatively recessed eyes. After a hoax by an amateur researcher, Shinichi Fujimura, had been exposed, the Lower and Middle Paleolithic evidence reported by Fujimura and his associates has been rejected after thorough reinvestigation. Only some Upper Paleolithic evidence not associated with Fujimura can be considered well established. Next Slide: The first signs of civilization and stable living patterns….

Ancient Japan The first signs of civilization and stable living patterns appeared around 14,000 BC with the Jōmon culture, characterized by a Mesolithic to Neolithic hunter- gatherer lifestyle of wood stilt house and pit dwelling and a basic form of agriculture. The Jōmon period lasted from about 14,000 BC to 300 BC. Next Slide: The Jōmon people started to make clay….

Ancient Japan The Jōmon people started to make clay vessels, decorated with patterns made by impressing the wet clay with braided or unbraided cord and sticks. Weaving was still unknown and clothes were often made of fur. Some of the oldest surviving examples of pottery in the world may be found in Japan, based on radio-carbon dating, along with daggers, jade, combs made of shells, and other household items dated to the 11th millennium BC, although the specific dating is disputed. Clay figures known as dogū were also excavated. The household items suggest trade routes existed with places as far away as Okinawa DNA analysis suggests that the Ainu, an indigenous people that live in Hokkaidō and the northern part of Honshū are descended from the Jōmon and thus represent descendants of the first inhabitants of Japan. Next Slide: Bibliography

Bibliography Hoshino Iseki Museum, Tochigi Pref. "Ancient Jomon of Japan", Habu Jinko, Cambridge Press, 2004 Prehistoric Archaeological Periods in Japan, Charles T. Keally "Prehistoric Japan, New perspectives on insular East Asia", Keiji Imamura, University of Hawai Press, Honolulu, ISBN 0-8248-1853-9 The History and Geography of Human Genes, Cavalli-Sforza, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-08750-4 Ainu:Spirit of a Northern People, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, ISBN 0-9673429-0-2 Shoh Yamada (2002). Harvard Asia Quarterly "Politics and Personality: Japan's Worst Archaeology Scandal", Volume VI, No. 3. Summer Wikipedia- Papanese Paleolithic- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_paleolithic