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The Moriyama site is located on a plateau overlooking the Kizugawa River, which flows north and south along the western edge of Jōyō city.It is the remains of a village centered around the late mid-Jōmon period, and there are also remains and relics from the Yayoi period and Kofun period.
Jōmon (縄文, Jōmon), sometimes written as Jomon (American English /ˈdʒoʊˌmɑːn/ JOH-mahn, British English /ˈdʒəʊmɒn/ JOH-mon), [11] literally meaning "cord-marked" or "cord pattern," is a Japanese word coined by American zoologist, archaeologist, and orientalist Edward S. Morse in his book Shell Mounds of Omori (1879) which he wrote after he discovered sherds of cord-marked ...
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]
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 .
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 word kofun is Japanese for the type of burial mound dating from this era. It was a period of cultural import. Continuing from the Yayoi period, the Kofun period is characterized by influence from China and the Korean Peninsula; archaeologists consider it a shared culture across the southern Korean Peninsula, Kyūshū and Honshū. On the ...
The large-scale Yayoi period remains at the Yoshinogari site, Yoshinogari and Kanzaki in Saga Prefecture revealed examples of lead glass magatama typical of the Yayoi period. [15] In 2003, the excavation of a large Yayoi period settlement in Tawaramoto, Nara also revealed two large jade magatama , one 4.64 centimetres (1.83 in), the second 3.63 ...
The Zoku-Jōmon period (続縄文時代) (c. 340 BC–700 AD), [1] also referred to as the Epi-Jōmon period, [2] is the time in Japanese prehistory that saw the flourishing of the Zoku-Jōmon culture, [3] a continuation of Jōmon culture in northern Tōhoku and Hokkaidō that corresponds with the Yayoi period and Kofun period elsewhere. [3]