Heroic cultures are inevitably presented as ur-cultures, as something not so much lived in as looked back upon.
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Ur-culture
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The Satsumon culture itself was presumably some mixture of Jomon and Yayoi, which as others have mentioned are the main two ur-cultures in Japan (though there are definitely later waves of arrivals as well).
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