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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 Miyataki Site (宮滝遺跡, Miyataki iseki) is a complex archaeological site with traces from the Jōmon, Yayoi and early Nara periods, located in the Miyataki neighborhood of the town of Yoshino, Nara Prefecture Japan. It was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1924. [1]
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.
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]
The Osaka Prefectural Museum of Yayoi Culture ... is an archaeology museum with a focus on the Yayoi period in Izumi, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. [2] ...
The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to the Paleolithic, around 38–39,000 years ago. [1] The Jōmon period, named after its cord-marked pottery, was followed by the Yayoi period in the first millennium BC when new inventions were introduced from Asia.
Japanese prehistoric art is a wide-ranging category, spanning over the Jōmon (c. 10,000 BCE – 350 BCE [1]) and Yayoi periods (c. 350 BCE – 250 CE), and the entire Japanese archipelago. Including Hokkaidō in the north, and the Ryukyu Islands in the south which were, politically, not part of Japan until the late 19th century.