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 ...

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 ...

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.