The Pleistocene Era and the Jōmon Period

A History of Japan

15-06-2020 • 15 mins

We begin 35,000 years ago with the earliest known humans who lived on Japan, the paleolithic hunter-gatherers, followed by the semi-sedentary Jōmon people. Little is known for certain about either group, but I try to construct a basic outline for what their lives would have been like.

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