Satsumon culture

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The Satsumon culture (擦文文化, Satsumon Bunka) is a post-Jōmon, partially agricultural, archeological culture of northern Honshu and southern Hokkaido (700–1200 CE) that has been identified as the Emishi, as a Japanese-Emishi mixed culture, as the incipient modern Ainu, or with all three synonymously.[1] It may have arisen as a merger of the YayoiKofun and the Jōmon cultures. The Satsumon culture appears to have spread from eastern Honshu into southern Hokkaido.[2] The Ainu culture is now generally considered to have originated from the Okhotsk culture which merged with the Satsumon.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Imamura, Keiji (1996). Prehistoric Japan: New Perspectives on Insular East Asia. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824818524.
  2. ^ Imamura 1996, p. 204.
  3. ^ "The Ainu and Early Commerce in the Sea of Okhotsk". nippon.com. 2012-02-28. Retrieved 2020-12-16.


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