Zoku-Jōmon period

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The Zoku-Jōmon period (続縄文時代) (c. 340 BC–700 AD), [1] also referred to as the Epi-Jōmon period, [2] is the time in Japanese prehistory that saw the flourishing of the Zoku-Jōmon culture, [3] a continuation of Jōmon culture in northern Tōhoku and Hokkaidō that corresponds with the Yayoi period and Kofun period elsewhere. [3] Zoku-Jōmon ("continuing cord-marking") [4] in turn gave way to Satsumon ("brushed pattern" [3] or "scraped design" [5] ) around the seventh century [3] or in the Nara period [6] (710–794). The "Yayoinisation" of northeast Honshū took place in the mid-Yayoi period; use of the term Zoku-Jōmon is then confined to those, in Hokkaidō, who did not "become Yayoi". [6] Despite the elements of continuity emphasised by the name, which include the continuing production of cord-marked ceramics, ongoing employment of stone technology, and non-transition to rice-based agriculture, all Jōmon hallmarks, the Zoku-Jōmon period nevertheless saw a "major break in mobility and subsistence patterns". [4]

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