Movements

Incipient Jōmon

縄文時代草創期(じょうもんじだいそうそうき)

Movement · period · c. 11,000–8000 BCE

Dates. One of the six phases into which the Jōmon — too long to treat as one — is usually divided by the development of its pottery1; its limits are changes in pottery and way of life, dated by radiocarbon, not events. It begins with the earliest pottery — small, round-based vessels suited to a mobile life — and gives way to the Initial phase about 8000 BCE2. Mason 2005, p. 14. ↩ Ebd., p. 15. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.