They are believed to have mainly engaged in hunting, gathering and fishing. They had shorter heads, more square craggier faces and hairier bodies than the Yayoi people."A0000437", "2523808"
狩猟や漁労や採取で生活する
live on hunting, fishing, and gathering
男は狩猟、漁労、女は採集を行っていました。
Ainu men engaged in hunting and fishing while the women did the gathering."A0000435", "2238608"
During the Jomon period that extended from ten thousand years ago up to the fourth or third century B.C., people depended mainly on hunting, fishing and gathering for their livelihood. The Jomon people are credited with creating pottery vessels generally accepted to be the oldest ones in the world, which they decorated with characteristic rope-impressed (jomon) patterns."NIPO-010", "2288402"