Le Japon. Des chasseurs-cueilleurs à Heian. - 36 000 à l'an mille. Copte George Cogordan

George Cogordan

from the Great Wall of China to the Black Sea

engravings and notebooks from public and private collections

Basile Baudez

Le Japon. Des chasseurs-cueilleurs à Heian. - 36 000 à l'an mille. Copte George CogordanNearly 40,000 years ago, Japan was not yet the archipelago we know today: connected to the continent, these lands with hostile relief and capricious climatic and geological conditions around thirty volcanoes are active welcomed the first humans, ten thousand at most, from Korea, territories further south or even Siberia. Its longitudinal immensity had consequences on the development of societies and, during ancient times, several cultural spheres