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 ...

According to current mainstream theory, Japanese have mixed origins in the Jomon people known for their distinctive pottery culture (c. 14500 B.C.-1000 B.C.) and the Yayoi people with their own ...

A research team, including Professor Naoto Tomioka of Okayama University of Science, has uncovered new genetic evidence challenging the long-standing "dual-structure model" of Japanese ancestry. By ...

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

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 ...