Characteristic of the late Jomon period (10, 000–300 BCE) are the striking clay figurines known as dogu, which mostly depict human females and may have functioned as fertility symbols.

绳文时代（10 000 -公元前300）后期的特征是被称为dogu的醒目的粘土小雕像，它们大多描绘女性，可能具有生育符号的功能。

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And the word Jomon has come to be used not just for the objects, but for the people that made them, and even the whole historic period in which they were lived.

现在绳纹一词，已经不仅仅是这些物品的名称，那时代的人类，及他们生活的整个历史时期都被称之为绳纹。

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The latest discovery pushes the dawn of the Jomon era in Japan back 3, 500 years to a period when glaciers were rampant in much of the northern hemisphere.

ECONOMIST: A potted history