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 ...

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 people apparently had a strong appetite for making things. Artifacts found at Jomon Period sites range from sewing needles in various lengths to cloth woven from plants and even hairpins ...

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 ...

New research exploring the roots of modern Japanese populations has linked the genetic signature of Jomon hunter-gatherers ..

Some of the earliest inhabitants of Japan came from the Korean peninsula, according to a new study that sheds more light on ancient immigration patterns to the archipelago. Japan may be an ...

Yet the relationship between the Jomon and the Ainu is anything but straightforward ... Such a potentially large population of Satsumon people was hard to explain if they were hunter-gatherers.

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 ...

The immediate predecessors of the Ainu, who are the native people of northeastern Japan, occupied the site. Many archeologists consider the Ainu to be the last living descendants of the Jomon ...