Jomon Culture Emergence

In Japanese history, the Jōmon period is the time between c. 14,000 and 300 BCE, during which Japan was inhabited by the Jōmon people, a diverse hunter-gatherer and early agriculturalist population united by a common culture, which reached a considerable degree of sedentism and cultural complexity.^¹ Their ancestors migrated from Northeast Asia, the Korean Peninsula, China, and Southeast Asia.^¹ Their civilization is divided into six distinct phases. They eventually admixed with the Japonic-speaking Yayoi people.^¹