Middle Jōmon

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A Middle Jōmon vessel (3000-2000 BCE) called Kaen doki（火焔土器 "flame-formed earthenware vessel"), Tokyo National Museum, Japan.

A Middle Jomon jar. 2000 BCE.

The Middle Jōmon covers the period of Jōmon history from 3000 to 2000 BCE. Following the Early Jōmon period, the Middle Jōmon periods saw an explosion in population, as indicated by the number of excavations from this period.

These two periods correspond to a portion of the prehistoric Holocene climatic optimum (between 4000 and 2000 BCE), when temperatures were several degrees Celsius higher than the present and the seas were five to six meters higher as well("Prehistoric Japan", Imamura). Beautiful artistic realizations, such as highly decorated flamed vessels, remain from that time.

[edit] Main periods

Middle Jōmon (3000 - 2000 BCE):

Katsusaka/Otamadai,
Kasori E1,
Kasori E2.

Preceded by:
Early Jōmon

Middle Jōmon
period
(3000-200 BCE)

Succeeded by:
Late Jōmon

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