Okhotsk

A late prehistoric deep-sea fishing culture of the coastal areas of northern and eastern Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and the Kurile Islands, Japan. It coexisted with the Satsumon culture from about 800-1300 AD, and then disappeared. The hunter-fishermen also kept pigs and lived in distinctive hexagonal pit houses.

A late prehistoric culture of the coastal areas of northern and eastern Hokkaido, Skhalin and the Kurile Islands, Japan. It is intrusive to Hokkaido from the* north, co-existed with the Satsumon culture from about ad 800 to 1300, and then disappeared. The enigmatic maritime hunterfishermen, who also kept pigs and lived in distinctive hexagonal pit houses, may have become extinct, or have been absorbed by the Satsumon people, or may have withdrawn to the north to emerge in historic times as one of the maritime peoples, such as the Gilyak, the Ulchi, or even the Sakhalin Ainu.