The Jomon culture in Japan is the name given to a cultural tradition that lasted for over a thousand years and included a long range of subsistence behaviors and artifact styles. Jomon sites have among the earliest samples of ceramics in the world to date, and may or may not have invented pottery.
The Jomon Tradition is the name of the early Holocene period hunter-gatherers of Japan, from about 13,000-900 BC.
The Ainu are modern hunter-fisher-gatherer group of the Hokkaido region of northeastern Japan, thought to be descendents of the Jomon.
Fukui Cave is a rockshelter located in Nagasaki Prefecture of the island of Kyushu, Japan.
Hamanaka 2 is a multicomponent archaeological site on Rebun Island, Hokkaido province, Japan.
A middle Jomon settlement in Hokkaido prefecture.
Jon Turk's In the Wake of the Jomon is an adventure romance of a modern man attempting to reconstruct a possible sailing voyage around the northern Pacific rim from Japan to Alaska.
Early Jomon period cave in central Japan, dated to about 10,000 BC.
This course from Mark Ravina at Emory University has a number of features related to Jomon culture, including images of pots and figurines.
From Richard Hooker's Ancient World History site, more information about Jomon culture.
A comprehensive page dedicated to Jomon archaeology by Peter Matthews of the National Museum of Ethnology in Japan.
A bibliography of recent publications about the Jomon, the hunter-gatherer Neolithic group of Japan.
From New York's Metropolitan Museum, a website exhibit on Jomon pottery.
From Charles T. Keally, extensive archaeological data and sources about Japan's prehistory.
The archaeological site of Natsushima is an early Jomon tradition site, located in Kanagawa Province on a small island in Tokyo Bay, Japan.
The Tochibara rockshelter is the name of an inland, Early Jomon period archaeological site overlooking the Aiki river in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
The archaeological site of Usujiri is middle Jomon periiod settlement located in the Hokkaido region of Aomori prefecture on the island of Japan.
