縄じょう文もん時じ代だい

noun

Jōmon period (ca. 14000-1000 BCE)

Historical term for the Japanese Neolithic period known for cord-marked pottery and hunter-gatherer culture.

• 縄じょう文もん時じ代だいの土ど器きは縄なわ目めの模も様ようが特とく徴ちょうです。

  Pottery from the Jōmon period is characterized by cord-marked patterns.

• この遺い跡せきは縄じょう文もん時じ代だいの集しゅう落らく跡あとです。

  This site is the remains of a Jōmon period settlement.