Yayoi people

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The Yayoi people were an ancient population of the Japanese archipelago, known for introducing wet-rice agriculture, metalworking, and other key cultural and technological advances during Japan’s Yayoi period (c. 300 BCE–300 CE).

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient population
archaeological culture
ethnic group
ancestralTo Yamato people (partial)
linked to: Yamato people

modern Japanese population (partial)
archaeologicalSiteType burial mounds
moated hilltop settlements
paddy fields
associatedWith Yayoi period
contrastedWith Jomon hunter-gatherers
linked to: Jomon people
country Japan
culture Yayoi culture
linked to: Yayoi period
economy fishing and hunting
millet cultivation
wet-rice agriculture
engagedIn long-distance trade
warfare between communities
wet-field irrigation
expandedTo eastern Honshu
linked to: northern Honshū

western Honshu
linked to: southwestern Honshu
followedBy Kofun-period people
geneticComponent East Asian farmer ancestry
knownFor bronze technology
dolmen-like stone burials
introduction of wet-rice agriculture
iron technology
jar burials
large raised-floor granaries
metalworking
moated settlements
paddy-field rice cultivation
settled village life
social stratification
languageFamily Japonic languages
locatedIn Honshu
Japanese archipelago
Kyushu
migratedTo northern Kyushu
notableSite Toro site
Yoshinogari site
partOf history of Japan
possibleOrigin Korean Peninsula
Yangtze River basin
mainland East Asia
precededBy Jomon people
produced bronze bells
bronze mirrors
bronze weapons
distinctive Yayoi pottery
iron tools
region northern Kyushu core area
western Japan
religion animistic beliefs
ritual use of bronze bells
timePeriod Iron Age
c. 300 BCE–300 CE
usedMaterial bronze
iron
pottery

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Koreans relatedEthnicGroup Yayoi people