The "continuing Jōmon" of Hokkaidō (c. 300 BC – 700 AD). As wet-rice Yayoi culture spread up Honshū, the people of Hokkaidō kept the older cord-marked, foraging Jōmon way of life — the term Zoku-Jōmon is confined to those who did not "become Yayoi." A direct continuation of the Jōmon tradition, without rice agriculture.
Gave way to the Satsumon culture around the seventh century (the Nara period), as new influences from Honshū reached the island.
A standard English survey of Japanese prehistory covering the Jōmon, Epi-Jōmon and Hokkaidō sequences.
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