Toward the end of the early Jomon Period around 5,500 to 5,400 years ago, people started rebuilding their homes on the original sites, Daikuhara said. “The dwellings were relatively large and ...

To the delight of local residents, 17 ancient Jomon Pottery Culture Period (14,500-1000 B.C.) sites spanning four prefectures--Hokkaido, Aomori, Iwate, and Akita--have just been added to the ...

And the word Jomon has come to be used not just for the objects, but for the people that made them, and even the whole historic period in which they were lived. It was the Jomon people living in ...

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 ...