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Kind of seems like there were scattered tribes at first, that gradually spread and grew apart until they ended up (mostly) assimilating into one civilization.
by contravariant 6y ago
Kind of seems like there were scattered tribes at first, that gradually spread and grew apart until they ended up (mostly) assimilating into one civilization.
Not unsurprisingly the biggest two, the Ainu and the remaining Japanese civilization, seem to correspond to the two biggest islands.
- mc32 6y agoI thought Okinawans outnumbered Ainu people of Hokkaido?
- longtimegoogler 6y agoI don't know. The Ainu look very different, which has led to much speculation as to their origins. This suggests to me that the Ainu while maybe sharing some ancestry with the dominant Yamato people have a very different history, with the Ainu probably sharing less genetic history with modern East Asians.
- babesh 6y agoMy read of it was that there was a Jomon culture that was superseded by the Yamato culture. The Yamato culture was mostly from people coming from what is now Korea but there probably was admixture with the people already there. But this peopling was a good 2000+ years ago. So it’s a bit like saying my ancestors were here 13000 years ago and most of yours were here only 2000 years ago. Furthermore, we have no idea how many waves of people have migrated to those islands.
- Bayart 6y agoThe Ainus are left on Hokaido and the few scatered islands in the North because the Japanese pushed from the South (their ancestor originally having come from Eastern Korea). The complete colonization of Honshu itself wasn't achieved before the Early Modern period.