Jōmon culture: References & Edit History

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Modified link of Web site: The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Jōmon Culture (ca. 10,500�ca. 300 B.C.). Feb 21, 2025
Add new Web site: CORE - Agriculture and Ritual in the Middle Jomon Period. Oct 10, 2024
Add new Web site: Nature - A partial nuclear genome of the Jomons who lived 3000 years ago in Fukushima, Japan. Mar 22, 2024
Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Jomon Period. Feb 09, 2024
Article revised and expanded. Jul 09, 2012
Explained uncertainty about assigning dates to the Jōon period. Mar 11, 2011
Added image of a Jōmon earthenware vessel, Japan, 4000–200 BCE. Dec 16, 2010
Changed dates of Jōmon culture from "5th or 4th millennium BCE to 250 BCE" to "9000-6000 BCE and 1000 BCE to 500 BCE, depending on location." Dec 16, 2010
Media added. Aug 12, 2010
Added new Web site: Minnesota State University - The Paleolithic Period and Jomon Period. Feb 27, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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