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  2. Jōmon period - Wikipedia

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    The settlements of these new arrivals seem to have coexisted with those of the Jōmon and Yayoi for around a thousand years. Reconstruction of a Yayoi period house in Kyushu. Outside Hokkaido, the Final Jōmon is succeeded by a new farming culture, the Yayoi (c. 300 BC – AD 300), named after an archaeological site near Tokyo. [7]

  3. 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 ...

  4. Kofun period - Wikipedia

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    The Kofun period (古墳時代, Kofun jidai) is an era in the history of Japan from about 300 to 538 AD (the date of the introduction of Buddhism), following the Yayoi period. The Kofun and the subsequent Asuka periods are sometimes collectively called the Yamato period .

  5. Arashima Kofun Cluster - Wikipedia

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    The Arashima Kofun cluster (荒島古墳群) is a group of Yayoi to Kofun period burial mounds located in the Aratori-cho and Kujira-cho neighborhood of the city of Yasugi, Shimane Prefecture in the San'in region of Japan. The tumulus group was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1936 with the area under protection expanded in 1999. [1]

  6. Amidaji Kofun Cluster - Wikipedia

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    The Amidaji Kofun cluster (阿弥大寺古墳群) is a group of three late Yayoi period burial mounds located in the Shimofukuda neighborhood of the city of Kurayoshi, Tottori Prefecture in the San'in region of Japan. The tumulus group was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1981. [1]

  7. Shinpōinyama Kofun group - Wikipedia

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    The Shinpōinyama Kofun group (新豊院山古墳群, Shinpōinyama kofun-gun) is cluster of kofun burial mounds dating from the late Yayoi to the early Kofun period located in the Mukasatakenouchi neighborhood of the city of Iwata, Shizuoka in the Tōkai region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1987. [1]

  8. Inaridai Kofun Group - Wikipedia

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    The Kofun cluster gives its name to Inaridai pottery, the oldest pottery type in the Kantō region. [3] The Inaridai No. 1 Kofun and the Inaridai Kofun group are found in the Kanto loam layer. This layer has both early Jomon pottery types like Inaridai, Haijima, and Tado I and other artifacts. [3] It is also used as a categorization for figurines.

  9. 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]