Thoroughly enjoyed. Thankyou very much for this lecture. Don't know why everyone in the comments is whining about the speech, this lady is delivering a lot of information at a high speed - think anyone would struggle!

Yous all complaining about the lecturer have never sat through an hour long lecture at university before, and it shows.

I really appreciate this lecture to learn the Jomon culture.

thank you for bringing me up to speed

excellent lecture, thank you. What an amazing, ancient people. D.A., J.D., NYC

Don't know why I've only just found this...maybe because of Graham Hancock. Very very intresting lecture that has me more interested in this period. Nice to get out of classical history for a minute 😊 Thank you Dr. Milford 🙏

The adogu figure with the webbing between it's fingers and the putting pattern on it's skin reminds me of a giant Japanese Salamander / Kapa

The Ainu women lip marking are of Statius. From the age of 12, women started a long process of tattooing, marking the lips, hands and arms over a three-year period. When the process was complete, usually around age 15 or 16, she was eligible for marriage. Tattooing was a woman’s domain and only women tattooed each other.

This is not from 2018. She mentions the Common Market in Europe. So probably before 1993, maybe late 80’s.

Everyone: "oh wow those look so cool! So interesting." Me: *PTSD intensifies.* *Guardian Music intensifies.*

Muy bueno !

She sounds so nervous, poor lecturer. Very nice and interesting though

Very am good am presentation.

It's for grass burning.

😀

so..no clue at all

Breath of the Wild anyone? :D

Ive never ever in my life heard some one use "um" so often, literally almost every other word, sentences in a row.

if I cant explain something it's always ritual :)) just say you have no clue ;) otherwise great lecture

So a society existed almost immediately after the ice age in Japan they had folk art and some weird stone shit and planted crops in one way or another. NEATO

Interesting but the elocution is really bad.

too many assumptions in the face of contrary suggestion, the blight and sin of academia regarding archaeology

Every other word from this woman is "umm" or "uhh". She needs to work with a speech therapist. Also she speaks very slowly, which when paired with her insufferable overuse of stopwords makes her almost unlistenable. I had to speed the video up to 1.5% speed just to keep from killing myself. I'm not saying she's not a charming lady in real life, I'm saying she is diffucult to follow. Normal person: "Hello, my name is Jane. I'm pleased to meet you. Today I'm going to teach you about Japanese prehistory. Here are some rocks. We believe these rocks are remnants of this bygone era." This woman: "Umm.... hello, uhh........ my name is, umm........... Jane. I'm, uhh............. pleased to meet you. Umm................today I'm going to, uhh........................ teach you about, umm............................... Japanese, uhh................................... prehistory. Here are some, umm............................................ rocks. We believe these, uhh.................................................rocks, are, umm.................................................. remnants of this bygone, uhh........................................................ era. Umm..........................................................."

Not even 3 minutes in, already bored.