Jomon Period
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The earliest categorized period of Japanese history extending from 8,500 B.C. to 300 B.C. It is named for pottery bearing cord marks from this period. The Jômon period in the Japanese islands may have seen the earliest invention (discovery) of pottery (ceramics) technology in the world.
The end of the Jômon is marked by the introduction of rice cultivation, quite possibly by a different people coming into the archipelago from outside, settling there, and taking over (or intermarrying into the Jômon population), establishing a new mode of society. This new period is called the Yayoi period.
| Previous Period Paleolithic |
Jômon Period | Following Period Yayoi Period |
