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Tools were still made chiefly of wood and stone, but now included a wider range of objects, including canoes, a variety of fishing nets and hooks, shovels, and pit traps; many communities also made use of domesticated dogs, which were used to assist in hunting, and are not believed to have been eaten in the Jômon period, though dog meat did become part of the diet in the Yayoi period.<ref>Kobayashi, 87.</ref> Technologies such as the use of [[lacquer]], the fermentation/brewing of wines, and the baking of cookies<ref>Kobayashi, 89.</ref> or the like, possibly with yeast, were also known as early as the Jômon period.
Tools were still made chiefly of wood and stone, but now included a wider range of objects, including canoes, a variety of fishing nets and hooks, shovels, and pit traps; many communities also made use of domesticated dogs, which were used to assist in hunting, and are not believed to have been eaten in the Jômon period, though dog meat did become part of the diet in the Yayoi period.<ref>Kobayashi, 87.</ref> Technologies such as the use of [[lacquer]], the fermentation/brewing of wines, and the baking of cookies<ref>Kobayashi, 89.</ref> or the like, possibly with yeast, were also known as early as the Jômon period.
−By around 7000 BCE, people were first living in underground, or above-ground, dwellings, while by around 5000 BCE, settlements grew more set and permanent, and larger, with many people living in pit dwellings made of wood, thatch, and/or earth. Preservation techniques including the smoking and salting of foods, combined with the advent of pottery for storage, were crucial to the emergence of larger and more permanent settlements. Large communal storehouses came to be constructed at, or as, the centers of villages.
+By around 7000 BCE, people were first living in underground, or above-ground, dwellings, while by around 5000 BCE, settlements grew more set and permanent, and larger, with many people living in pit dwellings made of wood, thatch, and/or earth. Preservation techniques including the smoking and salting of foods, combined with the advent of pottery for storage, were crucial to the emergence of larger and more permanent settlements. Large communal storehouses came to be constructed at, or as, the centers of villages.
+Though recent genetic studies suggest that a population of Jômon people existed on the southern coast of the Korean peninsula for a time, the Korean population today has negligible Jômon DNA. By contrast, Jômon DNA is reflected in roughly ten percent of Japanese genetics today, on average.<ref>Gregory Smits, ''Early Ryukyuan History: A New Model'', University of Hawaii Press (2024), 16.</ref>
The end of the Jômon is marked by the introduction of [[wet 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]].
The end of the Jômon is marked by the introduction of [[wet 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]].