Many Yayoi period stones have been found in recent years, primarily in northern Kyushu where Fukuoka and Saga prefectures are now, but it was unknown whether they had been made in Japan.

"It is a valuable artifact that supports the presence of letters in this time period in Japan." The shard is roughly three inches tall and three and a half inches wide; it most likely came from a ...

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 ...

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.

Yayoi pottery culture succeeded Jōmon culture, a Japanese historical period especially known for its ceramics. Yayoi pottery is known for "clean, functional shapes," according to the Metropolitan ...

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 ...

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 ...

image: Human remains from the Yayoi period, approximately 2,300 years ago, from which DNA was extracted. view more . Credit: Kim et al 2024. A joint research group led by Jonghyun Kim and Jun ...

Genetic analysis of a Yayoi individual from the Doigahama site provides insights into the origins of immigrants to the Japanese Archipelago. Journal of Human Genetics , 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s10038 ...