Japan's long prehistoric period characterized by the Jōmon hunter-gatherer and early agriculturalist culture, producing some of the world's earliest pottery and spanning from roughly 14,000 to 300 BCE.
The Jomon period ended around 300 BCE (some scholars say as early as 1000 BCE in western Japan) as the Yayoi culture spread from the Korean peninsula, introducing wet-rice agriculture and bronze/iron technology and gradually absorbing or displacing Jomon communities.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Jōmon Period (Japan) — the shape you scrub through changes in 5000 BC · 4500 BC · 2750 BC · 950 BC.
The standard English-language archaeological study of the Jōmon period.
Era/regional: classic narrative opening with Japan's prehistoric and Jomon foundations before the rise of the Yamato state.