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Deep Cooking Vessel, c. 2500 BC. This cooking vessel was formed by piling coils of clay atop one another, smoothing and thinning the walls, and then adding surface decoration. These designs consist of vertical incised squiggle lines as well as impressed rope patterns ( jomon ), diagonal lines that create texture. Jomon are typical of vessels of the era, so archaeologists named the period after them.