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縄文時代と弥生時代のちがい、そして古墳時代へ

Jōmon vs. Yayoi, and On to the Kofun Period

Between the Jōmon and Yayoi periods, people's lives changed greatly.

The biggest difference is food.

In the Jōmon period hunting, fishing and gathering were central, but in the Yayoi period rice farming gradually became central.

Jōmon tools were mostly made of stone and bone.

In the Yayoi period, bronze ware and ironware also came into use.

Jōmon pottery is thick and has cord-marked patterns.

Yayoi pottery is thin and hard with few patterns.

Pit houses existed in both periods, but raised-floor storehouses for keeping rice spread in the Yayoi period.

Jōmon society is thought to have been made up of small groups with only small differences in rank.

In the Yayoi period, gaps between rich and poor and between ranks arose, and kuni were formed.

Jōmon people are thought to have prayed to nature using things such as clay figures (dogū).

Yayoi people held festivals praying for a good harvest, using things such as dōtaku.

Almost no traces of fighting have been found for the Jōmon period, but there are clear traces in the Yayoi period.

Toward the end of the Yayoi period, in the third century, very large keyhole-shaped tombs (zenpō kōenfun) began to be built in the Kinki region.

A zenpō kōenfun is a grave shaped like a keyhole, with a square part and a round part joined together.

The period in which such large tombs were built is called the Kofun period.

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