Suddenly, when that wet clay hardened, a whole world of culinary possibilities and ceramic design opened ... having no pottery tradition to learn from, the Jomon looked at what they already ...

The Jomon Pottery Culture Period flourished from around 14500 B.C. to 1000 B.C. and boasted distinctive rope-patterned earthenware. Marked differences in how people lived emerged from a ...

Suddenly, when that wet clay hardened, a whole world of culinary possibilities and ceramic design opened ... having no pottery tradition to learn from, the Jomon looked at what they already ...

They also bore a design of a huge wave connecting Hokkaido and the Tohoku region, which looked to me like a piece of earthenware pottery. To the delight of local residents, 17 ancient Jomon ...

So the Sakushukotoni-gawa site is not a Jomon village. Rather it represents a community of what, after its characteristic pottery, Hokkaido archeologists call the "Satsumon culture." Falling in ...