Jōmon period
縄文時代
Movement · period · c. 11,000–400 BCE
Dates. Both ends are archaeological, not events. It begins with the first pottery, now usually put about 16,000 years ago, and ends where the wet-rice farming and metal tools of the Yayoi culture take its place1. Mason gives c. 11,000–400 BCE2; Nabunken ends it already about 800 BCE because it follows the earlier, radiocarbon start of the Yayoi period, while the Tokyo, Kyoto and Nara museums keep the older end in the 5th century BCE3. Dates before 4713 BCE cannot be stored here, so the start stays open. Wikipedia, 縄文時代, 始期…1万6000±850年前 · 終期…弥生文化の始まり. ↩ Mason 2005, p. 10. ↩ Nabunken 2022, pp. 29–31. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005. Nabunken 2022: Daniel Borengasser u. a., 付録：時代区分－西暦対応表, in: 英文スタイル・マニュアル：基礎編 / Style Manual for English Texts: General Conventions, 奈良文化財研究所 (Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties) 2022, S. 29–31. Wikipedia, 縄文時代: Anon., 縄文時代, in: ウィキペディア日本語版, https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B8%84%E6%96%87%E6%99%82%E4%BB%A3 (zuletzt abgerufen am 30.10.2026).