Travel Jomon-style meant going on foot. Jomon hunters often went
on foot to temporary sites within a average 2 kilometer radius
of their villages to hunt for wild boar or to fish. Many Jomon
people also migrated on foot seasonally from the mountain base
camps to lowland estuary or coastal sites. Watercraft or
shipping was however an important means of transportation for
the Jomon people. Rafts made of wood or bamboo were probably
common forms of transportation. Remains of many excavated dugout
canoes (called logboats), have been found from Early Jomon to
Final Jomon sites, 46 of these were from Uenohara’s Early Jomon
settlement alone. The oldest dugout canoe ever found was from
Torihama shellmound in Fukui prefecture. It was 6 meters long
and 60 cm wide. It was made by using stone adzes or axes to
half-split the trunk of a Japanese cedar (cryptomeria japonica)
tree which was then hollowed out by fire. In the final stage of
making the canoe, the surface of the canoe was carefully
polished. A blunt-prowed dugou