Yayoi people

Yayoi people (, Yayoi jin) refers to people in the Yayoi period in Japan.

Strictly, it contains the following three

But mainly "Yayoi people" refers to 1, and this page deals with 1.

Yayoi people belongs to Neo-Mongoloid. Their orbit of the nose is flatter, rounded up and down in the top and bottom, it is smart. Also, the size of their teeth is also larger than Jomon people. The average height is also around 162 to 163 cm, higher than Jomon people.

There are several hypothesis about the origin of Yayoi people.

The most popular one is that they were the people who brought water rice cultivation to Japan from Korean peninsula or Jiangnan in China.

Another is that they are from Primorskaya Oblast or northern part of Korean peninsula. It is because the human bones of the resemble the ancient human bones of the northern part of Korean peninsula, and pottery similar to the "", widely used during the Yayoi period, was discovered in the in the southwestern coastal province of Primorskaya Oblast.

The theory that Yayoi people have multiple origins is influential.

It is estimated that Yayoi people mainly belonged to Haplogroup O-M176 and Haplogroup O-M122.

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