To 4000 BCE: Japan | Asia for Educators

World History for Us All	Bridging World History	The Metropolitan Museum of Art	Hyperhistory.com
Big Era 1: 13 Billion - 200,000 Big Era 2: 200,000 - 100,000 Big Era 3: 10,000 - 1,000 BCE	Unit 1: Maps, Time, World History Unit 2: History and Memory Unit 3: Human Migrations	World Regions: 20,000-8,000 World Regions: 8,000-2,000	Pre-history

Early Humans
Neolithic Period (Yangshao)
Crops

Paleolithic and
Neolithic Periods (Jomon)

Neolithic Period

Mesolithic and Neolithic Periods; Indus Valley
/Early Harappan

See Index of Topics for All Time Periods

JAPAN: HISTORY-ARCHAEOLOGY

Paleolithic and Neolithic Periods

ca. 50,000 to 12,000 BCE
• Early Japan (50,000 BC - 710 AD) [About Japan: A Teacher's Resource]
An overview of Japanese history from 50,000 BCE to 710 CE. Includes two paragraphs about the Paleolithic Period and a longer section about the subsequent Jomon Period.

ca. 10,500 to 300 BCE
• Jomon Culture [The Genographic Project: Atlas of the Human Journey, NationalGeographic.com]
Select the section under "15,000 B.C. to 10,000 B.C." on the timeline, then mouse over the orange pushpin-like icon over Japan to learn about the Jomon, who were the first settlers of Japan.

• Jomon Culture [Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art]
A general overview of the Jomon period and its six phases. With seven related artifacts from the period.

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