At https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/01/japan-lake-biwa-ancient-vase-discovery-10000-years-old/ … a remarkably preserved Jomon vase has been found beneath Japan’s largest lake – preserved for over 10,000 years. Underwater robotics, 3D scanning, and long range imaging were applied to a location with low level visibility. It is one of the best preserved examples of early Jomon pottery yet found.
In late 2025 Japanese researchers conducted a digital survey of the lake bed, which is around 64 m in depth. Lake Biwa, in more shallower parts, had already yielded some interesting finds. Jomon pottery, elsewhere, has been dated as far back as 13,000 years ago.
Meanwhile, in China, not so far away, we have some further intriguing finds – see Current World Archaeology 135. The city of Erlitou, just south of the Yellow River, may have been the capital of its first dynasty, Xia. Dating from around 1900BC, contemporary with Middle Kingdom Egypt, the city has palace buildings and royal sponsored bronze workshops – as well as jades, turquoise ornaments, and the first evidence of roads and wheeled vehicles. The Shang dynasty followed, after 1600BC, the contemporary of Late Kingdom Egypt. It had its capital at Zhengzhou and Anyang. However, new research along the Yangtse River has turned up sacrificial pits with rich bronzes at Sanxingdul. In addition, in the lower reaches of the Yangtse, a state centre flourished at Liangzhu – from 33ooBC onwards. Much earlier than Erlitou. Jade of exceptional quality was employed in order to delineate social status – quarried nearby. Jade battle axes, for example, and jade discs, etc. The elite, along with their jade possessions, were buried in painted wooden coffins. However, they als0 used stone ploughs – in the surrounding fields. The peasants were not worthy of jade – but they sustained the elite and other elements of the population. In around 2600BC Liangzhu went into decline – which seems to mirror a similar decline at the end of dynasty 5 in Old Kingdom Egypt. Liangzhu was later abandoned – again, mirroring what happened at the end of dynasty 6 and during the First Intermediate Period in Egypt. How do two widely separated regions parallel their phases of splendid advance and their phases of decline and rupture? Cosmos and Chaos.
Liangzhu culture relied on rice cultivation, and a reservoir of peasant cultivators. We are told this may indicate that climate change was involved. This is also a feature we see elsewhere in diverse locations. This is normally dated at around 2500BC [and previously, at 2350BC, via dendrochronology]. Again, the 3300BC date would previously have been hollowed out at 3200-3000BC. This corresponds with the last appearance of Krishna on Earth, or from Earth, clothed in bright blue. 3112BC also features in Mayan calculations as a starting point of some kind. The Old Kingdom in Egypt began around the same time – or immediatly afterwards. The bull god Min was in some way involved. In Mesopotamia the period is associated with the arrival of migrants from the steppe who went on to re-produce their kurgan style tombs in the Royal Tombs at Ur, deep in the heart of Sumeria. This is an interesting configuration that smacks of a global event of some kind. And, yes, it is recognised by science as the Piorra Oscillation [see Net for more details]. The article goes on to elaborate on a dry period of climate between 2300 and 1800BC. Again, something similar occurred in Egypt, as already noted, and in Mesopotamia and the Levant, Anatolia and the Aegean, etc. The dry episode corresponded with a much wetter climate in NW Europe, as noted by dendrochronologist Mike Baillie. The jet stream seems to have shifted southwards, on average, which at the same time suggests the monsoon belt, at the same point in time, also drifted southwards, creating the dry climates of the Near and Middle East, and monsoon failure in China. All we need to know was what was the agency for causing the shift in rain belts. Who or what was Krishna. What was the Sumerian Bull of Heaven. Where do Chinese dragons come in?