The Jōmon people lived in small communities, mainly in sunken pit dwellings situated near inland rivers or along the seacoast, and subsisted primarily by hunting, fishing, and gathering.
The same is the case at Burzahom in the Vale of Kashmir, where deep pit dwellings are associated with ground stone axes, bone tools, and gray burnished pottery.
There are also the remains of many ancient pit dwellings, and large quantities of worked flints have been found.
Upwards of 130 pit dwellings have been noticed within the encampment, but not one has been found on the hill outside the lines of defence.
Mr. Playne says there are upwards 700 ancient pit dwellings in close proximity, some inside and some outside the camp, but most numerous near the escarpment.
Rudder says this which called "Becket's Bury". Scattered all over the plateau of Westridge, adjacent to the camp, were found innumerable pit dwellings.
The remains of 32 pit dwellings have been discovered a little to the north of Drakestone, and it has been suggested that it might have formed a refuge to the pre-historic people who dwelt in these "pits"!
Mesolithic flint implements, Iron Age pottery and pit dwellings have also been reported in the Holt Hill area of Ditton.
Mr. Playne says there are upwards of 400 ancient pit-dwellings on this hill.
Unique in the insect world for their extremely sedentary predatory behavior, pit-dwelling larval antlions dig pits, and then sit at the bottom and wait, sometimes for months, for prey to fall inside.
