Stone Age
Jomon
A long-lived hunter-gatherer-fisher culture whose deeply divergent ancestry still contributes to modern Japanese populations.
- Period
- Mesolithic to Neolithic (c. 14,000–300 BCE)
- Region
- the Japanese archipelago
- Samples
- 17
- Groups
- 7
Explore Jomon on the map
Kvali places every sample below on an interactive map using G25 coordinates. Open a sample to see where it plots against modern and ancient populations, run a genetic-distance search, or play a guided Ancestry Story. You can also compare your own DNA against these populations after uploading your raw data.
Archaeological groups included
Japan Chiba HG JomonJapan Honshu Early JomonJapan Tohoku JomonJapan Honshu Mid Late JomonJapan Ikawazu JomonJapan Shikoku Initial JomonJapan Soya Sub HG Jomon
Notable Jomon samples
Showing 17 of 17 individuals.
- I13882Japan Chiba HG Jomon
- I13883Japan Chiba HG Jomon
- I13884Japan Chiba HG Jomon
- I13885Japan Chiba HG Jomon
- I13886Japan Chiba HG Jomon
- I6341Japan Soya Sub HG Jomon
- IK002Japan Ikawazu Jomon
- JpFu1Japan Honshu Early Jomon
- JpKa6904Japan Shikoku Initial Jomon
- JpKo13Japan Honshu Mid Late Jomon
- JpKo2Japan Honshu Mid Late Jomon
- JpOd181Japan Honshu Early Jomon
- JpOd274Japan Honshu Early Jomon
- JpOd282Japan Honshu Early Jomon
- JpOd6Japan Honshu Early Jomon
- Sanganji131421-3Japan Tohoku Jomon
- Sanganji131464Japan Tohoku Jomon