Inexplicably, only a few Epi-Jomon pit-houses have ever turned up. A migration of the Satsumon from Tohoku into Hokkaido seems to have brought an end to the Epi-Jomon. Indeed, the Satsumon culture ...

Yet the relationship between the Jomon and the Ainu is ... team works on an early Satsumon house on Hokkaido. In the 1920s, a visitor had mapped hundreds of pit houses, still visible as ...