The roots of immigration to the Japanese archipelago.Credit: Kim et al 2024.
Posted on 11/02/2024 6:20:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Japan has been inhabited by people since about 35,000 years ago. Roughly 16,500 years ago a group of Neolithic hunter-gatherers, referred to as the "Jomon" culture, developed a complex society including the production of pottery and jewellery.
About 3,000 years ago, rice cultivation in paddy fields was introduced to Japan. This saw the beginning of the Yayoi period which ended around the year 300 CE. After the Yayoi came the Kofun period (300–538 CE)...
The authors note that the current consensus based on DNA evidence from modern Japanese people is that there was 2 or 3-way mixing between the indigenous Jomon people and 1 or 2 other sources of immigration to the archipelago during the Yayoi and Kofun periods...
Ohashi's team analysed the complete nuclear genome of an individual dug up at a Yayoi period cemetery in the Doigahama archaeological site. The site is on the far southwest of Japan's main island Honshu, about 800km from Tokyo.
The genome was compared with those of modern and ancient populations in other parts of East and Northeast Asia.
Researchers found close similarity between the Yayoi individual and Kofun individuals who have distinct Jomon, East Asian and Northeast Asian ancestries.
Among modern populations, the Yayoi genome most closely resembled – apart from modern Japanese people – Korean populations.
(Excerpt) Read more at cosmosmagazine.com ...
The roots of immigration to the Japanese archipelago.Credit: Kim et al 2024.
I took a jet from NY to Tokyo . ; )
Was that the ‘sideways’ route? /s
Yeah, my wife is Japanese and very Jomon. Sometimes even Japanese ask her if she’s Japanese. They look almost a mix of Caucasian-polynesian whereas yayoi are very East Asian looking.
Well,I’m not saying it is impossible as I guess I don’t have all the knowledge some of these people do, but knowledge of the Bible would seem to vacate any likelihood of a civilization in Japan that long ago.
I wondered why I couldn’t pronounce “R’s”... I thought it was because of my Maine accent lol
Interesting article. The graphic and the study itself are better than the explanation in the article, which is a bit confusing.
My take: the original Japanese were known as the Jomon people. The previous thesis was that Northeastern Siberians immigrated to Japan during the Yayoi period [3,000 BC - 300 AD], then East Asians (such as Han Chinese) during the Kofun period [starting 300 AD]. The discovery is that a Yayoi period skeleton already possessed all three lineages, suggesting that the mixing of North Siberian and East Asian occurred first, then those mixed people immigrated to Japan. The people who have the closest mix of North Siberian and East Asian are the Koreans, and so the researchers conclude that there was just one migration from Korea that mixed with the indigenous Jomon to create the modern Japanese.
Where do the Ainu people fit into this?
The Japanese have something like a glass floor under which no dated human activity is allowed. It’s dying out. What used to happen was, an archaeologist would dig down until the oldest known/accepted strata was reached, and dig no further. That started to look more and more goofy as time went by, but when a site was obviously deeper (for example, as in other places in the world, a mound) some brave souls decided to dig and found earlier human strata. The professional backlash was hard on the researchers. As in China, the human population of what is now Japan is 100s of 1000s of years old. The barrier is psychological rather than geographical.
That’s so interesting. Do you have any article on this topic? And any speculation for why that was? Could it be they didn’t want to find out about the immigration from Korea?
:^) Keep ‘em guessing, that’s what I say. :^)
In that Quora link there’s a photo that probably illustrates exactly that.
Turning Japanese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGy9uomagO4
Honest question: what’s a “Neolithic hunter-gatherer”?
It’s a hunter-gatherer who lived during the Neolithic.
Your meaning is unclear to me. Are you saying that the Bible puts an upper limit on how long ago Japan could have been home to a civilization?
If so: What is that Biblical upper limit? Four thousand years ago? Six thousand years ago? Eight thousand years ago? Ten thousand years ago?
Regards,
Thank you.
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