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 ...

Shirakihara has said that in the Yayoi Period, red pigment was used for graves of influential people. “We don’t know the level of power of the person (buried in the coffin), but we believe the ...

Scientists were able to extract DNA from a Yayoi-era skeleton found at the famous archaeological site of Doigahama in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, and conduct a complete analysis of its genome. This ...

Human remains from Yayoi period about 2,300 years ago (Kim et al 2024) More than 80 per cent of the genomes of modern Japanese people consist of ancestries related to east and northeast Asia.

Human remains from the Yayoi period, approximately 2,300 years ago, from which DNA was extracted. Today, Japan is an international hub for both business and pleasure. However, this was not always the ...

The findings, which show chickens were bred in the Karako-Kagi site, a settlement from the Yayoi period [5th century BCE to around 2nd century BCE], ...

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 ...