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Yayoi culture |
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Yayoi culture(c. 250 BC–c. AD 250) Prehistoric culture of Japan subsequent to Jomon culture. It arose on the island of Kyushu and spread northeastward across Honshu. The Yayoi people mastered bronze and iron casting, wove hemp, and employed a Chinese method of wet-paddy rice cultivation. Yayoi pottery is unglazed; early examples have incised decorations, but pieces produced in the last stage of the period are often undecorated. Chinese-style bronze mirrors and coins indicate contact with Han-dynasty China. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Through an exhaustive examination of archaeological findings such as pottery, tools, dwellings, weapons, pit-traps and human remains from Jomon sites, Keiji Imamura untangles a puzzle of the Jomon culture that spread over the whole territory of present-day Japan, in comparison with Yayoi culture that reached neither Okinawa nor Hokkaido. The transformation hypothesis holds that the Yayoi culture did supplant the Jomon culture but that the Yayoi did not come to Japan in large enough numbers to influence significantly the Jomon gene pool. |
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