Jomon Culture

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.

Jomon Tradition Timeline and Definition
The Jomon Tradition is the name of the early Holocene period hunter-gatherers of Japan, from about 13,000-900 BC.

Ainu
The Ainu are modern hunter-fisher-gatherer group of the Hokkaido region of northeastern Japan, thought to be descendents of the Jomon.

Hamansuno
A middle Jomon settlement in Hokkaido prefecture.

Fukui Cave (Japan)
Fukui Cave is a rockshelter located in Nagasaki Prefecture of the island of Kyushu, Japan.

Hamanaka 2 (Japan)
Hamanaka 2 is a multicomponent archaeological site on Rebun Island, Hokkaido province, Japan.

Ishigoya Cave
Early Jomon period cave in central Japan, dated to about 10,000 BC.

In the Wake of the Jomon: A Book Review
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.

Jomon Culture
From Charles T. Keally, extensive archaeological data and sources about Japan's prehistory.

Jomon Archaeology
A comprehensive page dedicated to Jomon archaeology by Peter Matthews of the National Museum of Ethnology in Japan.

Jomon Culture (Metropolitan Museum)
From New York's Metropolitan Museum, a website exhibit on Jomon pottery.

Tochibara Rockshelter (Japan)
The Tochibara rockshelter is the name of an inland, Early Jomon period archaeological site overlooking the Aiki river in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

Natsushima (Japan)
The archaeological site of Natsushima is an early Jomon tradition site, located in Kanagawa Province on a small island in Tokyo Bay, Japan.

Usujiri
The archaeological site of Usujiri is middle Jomon periiod settlement located in the Hokkaido region of Aomori prefecture on the island of Japan.

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