Chicken breeding in Japan dates back to fourth century BCE Date: April 20, 2023 Source: Hokkaido University Summary: Conclusive evidence of chicken breeding in the Yayoi period of Japan has been ...

A long-standing hypothesis, the dual-structure model, posits that Japanese populations derive dual ancestry from indigenous Jomon hunter-gatherer-fishers and succeeding Yayoi farmers. We conduct ...

The new study, published in the Journal of Human Genetics, analysed the genome of a person dating to the Yayoi period whose remains were uncovered at the Doigahama archaeological site in Yamaguchi ...

The bloodlines of modern Japanese lie with immigrants from the Korean Peninsula who arrived in the archipelago during the Yayoi Pottery Culture Period (1000 B.C.-A.D. 250), new research suggests.

By analyzing the DNA of a 2,300-year-old skeleton, the team was able to learn that Japanese ancestry is a mix of two people groups that integrated during the Yayoi period (around 300 B.C. to 300 A ...

Human remains from the Yayoi period, approximately 2,300 years ago, from which DNA was extracted. Credit: J. Kim et al. / University of Tokyo The Doigahama site in Yamaguchi Prefecture is famous for ...

A joint research group led by Jonghyun Kim and Jun Ohashi of the University of Tokyo has demonstrated that the majority of immigration to the Japanese Archipelago in the Yayoi and Kofun periods came ...

While the Japanese have no contemporary written history of their own (Japan’s first written history was compiled in the sixth century AD), there are Chinese records of Sino-Japanese encounters of this ...

Japanese Pottery Shard from 2,000 Years Ago Etched With Kanji Characters Reveals Fascinating Glimpse of Ancient Language ...

Conclusive evidence of chicken breeding in the Yayoi period of Japan has been discovered from the Karako-Kagi site. The chicken is one of the most common domesticated animals, with a current ...

Today, Japan is an international hub for both business and pleasure. However, this was not always the case. The Japanese Archipelago was relatively isolated during the Jomon period until around 3000 ...