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A young woman of the Final-Jomon Period (1,000–300 BC).

The Jomon culture flourished between (14,000-300 BC) in what is now known as Japan.

Originally hunter-gatherers and fishermen, the Jomon people were some of the first to develop pottery and a sedentary lifestyle. Unlike the Yayoi people, the Jomon culture never really developed the concept of a true political state. Although conflicts occasionally occurred between different groups and individuals, there exists little evidence to suggest that the Jomon were ever a warlike people.

The Final-Jomon Period (1,000-300 BC) saw advancements in sophisticated agriculture and metallurgy, as well as an influx of new arrivals from the Asian mainland. This period also marked major advancements in art, architecture, glass making, textiles, laminated bows, metalwork, and lacquerware. The Final-Jomon period would also see the rise of many elements found in Japanese culture, including religion and marriage ceremonies.

The Jomon period is succeeded by the Yayoi period outside of Hokkaido, where the Jomon is succeeded by the Zoku-Jomon (Post-Jomon) period. The Zoku-Jomon culture is succeeded by the Satsumon or Emishi culture by the 7th-13th century CE. The Ainu culture would develop from the merging of the Satsumon-Emishi and Okhotsk cultures in the 13th century CE and still exists to this day.

The Jomon are the Ancestors of today's Ainu, who are ethnically, culturally, and linguistically distinct from the Japanese.

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What is intriguing is that according to what I've read (or am I mistaken?) the Jomon culture extended not only north to Hokkaido but also south to the Ryukyu archipelago. There a kingdom developed, speaking a language akin to Japanese but clearly distinct, and looking very much Japaneses however (due to diet?) known as the longest-living people in the world.


Some dilemma for a physical anthropoligist and a linguist: Same culture developing two ways - to a divergent Japanese people in culture, faith and look, and also to a people looking not oriental at all (it is said that in old times an unbearded Ainu could be put in European garment and put at the streets in Rome or Madrid and nobody would have seen anything special about him...) and speaking a language isolate.