Facial reconstruction of a Jōmon individual from prehistoric Japan 🧬 This reconstruction represents a person from the Jōmon period (c. 14,000–300 BC), long before the arrival of rice agriculture in Japan. 🧬 Who were the Jōmon? The Jōmon were hunter-gatherer–fishers with one of the longest continuous cultures in the world. Genetically, they formed a distinct East Asian lineage, separate from later continental migrants. In broad terms, Jōmon-related ancestry shows: • Deep ancient East Asian root