What Tools Did They Use for Fishing and Why?
by Chris and Sascha
The Jomon and the Yayoi used a lot of different techniques when they fished. They used traps like a cage that was put under water, the fish swam into it and the door closed, so they could not get back out. They used nets with rocks tied to them at the ends so that when the fish swam under a thrown net, the rocks pulled the net down over the fish.Then the person on shore pulled the net up to him, the sides closed together, and he pulled the fish in. They also used ropes, made from a wild grass, with hooks on the end so that when the fish bit them, they got snagged. The person then pulled them in, like a modern fishing rod. The people also threw spears at the fish and stabbed them so they would be dead and couldn't get away. The last thing that they used were baskets. They put the baskets in the water and the fish would swim in and then the basket would be pulled up.
The Jomon, Yayoi, Shang and Indus river valley people used many technologies that were the same. All of these people used fishing nets if they were by the water. They all hunted and farmed, with the farming letting them build villages, towns and eventually cities. The Jomon and Yayoi built their houses out of sticks, string, and straw and clay. The early Shang and Indus houses were built in much the same way, just with packed mud. The early people of Tama also made some of the first pottery. The Shang and Indus people, on the other hand, developed how to make it much later. This all connects to River Valley civilizations in the way that they were continually developing things as time went on. Much of the technology developed by both peoples are pretty much the same until some of the more recent, electrical things. The people of the Kanto plain did a lot of the more primitive stuff but not much more.