Dogu
Created during the Jomon Period (15,000BC-400BC), Dogu are enigmatic clay figurines numbering in the thousands. What were they? Idols? Effigies? Fertility objects? Children's toys? Aliens (nah)? Nobody knows. Interestingly, enough have been found with identical broken limbs to suggest that destroyign their arms and legs had some sort of ritual significance. But what were these, and why did they predate rice farming, but vanish from Japan after?
Dogu
Created during the Jomon Period (15,000BC-400BC), Dogu are enigmatic clay figurines numbering in the thousands. What were they? Idols? Effigies? Fertility objects? Children's toys? Aliens (nah)? Nobody knows. Interestingly, enough have been found with identical broken limbs to suggest that destroyign their arms and legs had some sort of ritual significance. But what were these, and why did they predate rice farming, but vanish from Japan after?