Was this before or after the yayoi period?
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CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz 1 year agoI think you’re missing a bit here: The Japanese were historically hunter-gatherer societies far longer than their mainland neighbours. The reason appears to be a large abundance of food and resources, to the point that the Japanese hunter-gatherer societies are believed to be some of (if not the) only hunter-gatherer societies that formed year-round stationary settlements, because they had enough resources to not be reliant on wandering, as other, nomadic societies had to.
Historians believe that the Japanese only converted to agriculture once rice strains and agricultural methods that were suitable for their climate had been developed in Korea for over a thousand years, because thats how long it took to make agriculture able to compete against the hunter-gatherer lifestyle in Japan, due to the vast amount of resources.
Source: Guns, Germs and Steel (Jared Diamond)
Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 1 year ago
CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
If memory serves me right, I’m talking about the Jomon period, which is the periode from about 10 000 years ago, up until about 2500 years ago, when the Yayoi period started. I believe the start of the Yayoi period is marked (among other things) by the spread of agriculture throughout Japan.
Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Checked it out and no, the jomon period ended around 300 BC. So while Alexander’s successors were fighting each other Japan had barely discovered agriculture
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s not saying much considering that their neighbors included the Chinese, which had the oldest history of farming in the world. The Loess plateau was farmed 10,000 years ago!