Jomon period
14,000 BCE–300 BCE* · Event
Long Mesolithic-Neolithic Japanese culture characterised by cord-marked pottery (the oldest in the world), pit-dwellings and a hunter-gatherer way of life.
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Around 14000 BCE
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