Jōmon period

History of Japan

Paleolithic 35000–10000 BCE Jōmon period 10000–300 BCE Yayoi period 300 BCE–250 CE Kofun period 250–538 Asuka period 538–710 Nara period 710–794 Heian period 794–1185 Kamakura period 1185–1333 Kemmu restoration 1333–1336 Muromachi period 1333–1573 Nanboku-chō period 1336–1392 Sengoku period Azuchi-Momoyama period 1568–1603 Nanban trade Edo period 1603–1868 Late Tokugawa shogunate Meiji period 1868–1912 Meiji Restoration Taishō period 1912–1926 Japan in WWI Shōwa period 1926–1989 Japanese expansionism Occupied Japan Post-Occupation Japan Heisei period 1989-present

The Jōmon period ((縄文時代, Jōmon-jidai) is the time in Japanese prehistory which started in roughly 14,000 BC to 10,000 BC.

The period ended in roughly 500 BC or 400 BC to 300 BC.

"Jōmon" means means "patterns of plaited cord" or "cord-patterned".

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  Jōmon exhibit at National Science Museum, Tokyo

Related pages

• Ainu people

Other websites

• Media related to Jōmon period at Wikimedia Commons
• University of Tokyo, Memory of the Jomon Period
• Niigata Prefectural Museum of History, The Prehistoric Archaeology of Japan