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 article mentioned that the first people on Japan were Norbert asunder dating from 30000 years ago. Are these people the Ainu ? If so do they share genes with any of the siberians who came to the americas? Or Are these a separate group of people?
The article mentioned that the first people on Japan were Norbert asunder dating from 30000 years ago. Are these people the Ainu ? If so do they share genes with any of the siberians who came to the americas? Or Are these a separate group of people?
Huh?!
Regards,
Your take is very interesting. My family is from eastern Japan. My daughter had her DNA done and we found we have a lot of Korean in ùs, those from around Hiroshima. That explains why when I was in Afghanistan the locals kept asking if I was Korean.
Interesting!
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