先縄文時代

せんじょうもんじだい

noun

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pre-Jomon period (i.e. the preceramic period)(obscure)

先	before, ahead, previous, future, precedence
縄	straw rope, cord
文	sentence, literature, style, art, decoration, figures, plan, literary radical (no. 67)
時	time, hour
代	substitute, change, convert, replace, period, age, counter for decades of ages, eras, etc., generation, charge, rate, fee