Citing the genome of an individual dating to the Yayoi period, researchers from the University of Tokyo and other institutes speculated that the newcomers mixed with Jomon hunter-gatherers who ...

Hokkaido Jomon cultures continued during the Yayoi period long after the Jomon ended in southwestern Japan, but these continuing (or Epi-Jomon) sites developed a new character. Most sites consist ...

The Jomon people inhabited across the Japanese ... from the continent date back to about 3,000 years ago during the Yayoi Period. The researchers said additional immigrant groups, such as Han ...

Red, orange and blue symbols indicate the time of the archaeological site, i.e. the Jomon period, Yayoi period and Kofun period, respectively. Legend: Jomon sites; IK002 (Ikawazu Kaizuka), F23&F5 ...

Jomon: 10,000 Years of Nostalgia Jomon is a unique Japanese culture that lasted approximately 13,000 years in the pre-Christian age, within the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods in world history.

Its earliest inhabitants were the Jomon people, a collection of hunter-gatherer societies that lived an isolated life on the ...