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The Yayoi followed the Jōmon period and Yayoi culture flourished in a geographic area from southern Kyūshū to northern Honshū. Archaeological evidence supports the idea that during this time, an influx of farmers (Yayoi people) from the Korean Peninsula to Japan overwhelmed and mixed with the native predominantly hunter-gatherer population ...
The terms Yayoi and Wajin can be used interchangeably, though Wajin (倭人) refers to the people of Wa, and Wajin (和人) is also used as a name for the modern Yamato people. [7] The definition of the Yayoi people is complex: Yayoi describes both farmer-hunter-gatherers exclusively living in the Japanese archipelago and their agricultural ...
The Yayoi site is found over almost the entire area of the terrace, with the remains of at least ten pit dwellings on a slight rise in the center, and jar coffins and seven square moat graves distributed around the dwellings. These are the oldest known jar burials in the Kansai region of Japan.
Japan's indigenous culture originates primarily from the Yayoi people who settled in Japan between 1000 BCE and 300 CE. Yayoi culture spread to the main island of Honshu, mixing with the native Jōmon culture. [5] Modern Japanese have an estimated 80% Yayoi and 20% Jōmon ancestry. [6]
Narezushi spread to Japan around the Yayoi period (early Neolithic–early Iron Age). [1] In the Muromachi period (1336–1573), people began to eat the rice as well as the fish. [2] During the Edo period (1603–1867), vinegar rather than fermented rice began to be used. The dish has become a form of food strongly associated with Japanese ...
The Osaka Prefectural Museum of Yayoi Culture ... is an archaeology museum with a focus on the Yayoi period in Izumi, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. [2] ...
Yayoi pottery (弥生土器 Yayoi doki) is earthenware pottery produced during the Yayoi period, an Iron Age era in the history of Japan traditionally dated 300 BC to AD 300. [1] The pottery allowed for the identification of the Yayoi period and its primary features such as agriculture and social structure.
The archaeological remains from Toro elicited such an intense interest from Japanese archaeologists that the Japanese Archaeological Association was formed to study it. [2] Toro has been used as a type site for Yayoi culture despite the fact that the location of the settlement in the Tōkai region was peripheral to what has traditionally been ...