"The figure, which was made by piling up the circular clay strings, is estimated to have been created in the late period of the Jomon Age, which is thought to have begun as long as 16,000 years ago. “In the Jomon Age, which lasted in peace for 10,000 years, people lived together with the nature, refrained from taking more than they needed and helped each other,” Chiyokazu Yanagidaira, the mayor of Chino city, which possesses the statue, said Thursday.
