The Jomon Pottery Culture Period flourished from around 14500 B.C. to 1000 B.C. and boasted distinctive rope-patterned earthenware. Marked differences in how people lived emerged from a ...

Jomon: 10,000 Years of Nostalgia Today in Japan, the Jomon period is experiencing a quiet boom. Jomon is a unique Japanese culture that lasted approximately 13,000 years in the pre-Christian age ...

Archaeological sites in Hokkaido and the northern Tohoku region dating to the prehistoric Jomon Period, which lasted more than 10,000 years, are expected to soon be added to UNESCO’s World ...

During Japan's Jomon period from about 16,000 years ago to 3,000 years ago, people lived as hunter-gatherers. As some of their DNA was passed down to modern Japanese, unraveling their genome is ...