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 ...

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee decided on July 27 it will register prehistoric Jomon Period archaeological sites in Hokkaido and the northern Tohoku region to the World Cultural Heritage list.

Yet the relationship between the Jomon and the Ainu is anything but straightforward. Sometime around A.D. 600 to 700 in Hokkaido, rectangular pit-houses suddenly ... This period (400 B.C. to ...

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 ...

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 ...