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  2. Jōmon people - Wikipedia

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    The style of pottery created by the Jōmon people is identifiable for its "cord-marked" patterns, hence the name "Jōmon" (縄文, "straw rope pattern").The pottery styles characteristic of the first phases of Jōmon culture used decoration created by impressing cords into the surface of wet clay, and are generally accepted to be among the oldest forms of pottery in East Asia and the world. [9]

  3. Jōmon period - Wikipedia

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    A study by Lee and Hasegawa of Waseda University concluded that the Jōmon period population of Hokkaido consisted of two distinctive populations which later merged to form the proto-Ainu in northern Hokkaido. The Ainu language can be connected to an "Okhotsk component" which spread southwards. They further concluded that the "dual structure ...

  4. Ainu people - Wikipedia

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    Usui Horokeu, also known as Horohoro in the manga series Shaman King, is a member of an Ainu tribe. "Ainu" is a playable nation in the game Europa Universalis IV. The history of the island of Hokkaidō and of the Ainu people are part of the plot of a chapter in the manga Silver Spoon. [218]

  5. Genetic and anthropometric studies on Japanese people

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    Ancestry profile of Japanese genetic clusters illustrating their genetic similarities to five mainland Asian populations. A study, published in the Cambridge University Press in 2020, suggests that the Jōmon people were rather heterogeneous, and that there was also a pre-Yayoi migration during the Jōmon period, which may be linked to the arrival of the Japonic languages, meaning that Japonic ...

  6. History of religion in Japan - Wikipedia

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    The earliest period of Japanese historiography is the hunter-gatherer Jōmon period, which is thought to have been primarily animistic.In the later centuries (14,000–400 BC) of this period, there was an emergence of distinctive material artifacts such as clay figurines (known to scholars as dogū), intricate ceramics, and masks.

  7. Ainu culture - Wikipedia

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    Ainu culture is the culture of the Ainu people, from around the 13th century (late Kamakura period) to the present.Today, most Ainu people live a life superficially similar to that of mainstream Japanese people, partly due to cultural assimilation.

  8. Yayoi people - Wikipedia

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    The Yayoi people refers specifically to the mixed descendants of Jomon hunter-gatherers with mainland Asian migrants, which adopted (rice) agriculture and other continental material culture. [8] There are several hypotheses about the geographic origin of the mainland Asian migrants: immigrants from the Southern or Central Korean Peninsula [9 ...

  9. Filmography of the Ainu - Wikipedia

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    This is a filmography of films and videos that portray the life and culture of the Ainu people of what is now northern Japan and the fringe of the Russian Far East. Representations of the Ainu can vary from the strictly documentary to the fictional and, as with representations of Native Americans in Hollywood cinema, may suffer from distortions ...