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An ainu man from Urap village, Hokkaido Island, Japan, photographed by Romyn Hitchcock. U.S. National Museum Annual Report for 1890, Plate LXXXV (Courtesy of the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution)

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 Dinesh
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The Ainu en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_people#:~:text=The%20Ainu%20are%20the%20indigenous,the%20Yamato%20Japanese%20and%20Russians. Are the vestiges of hunting-gathering-fishing people who occupied the northern most island of the western Pacific including Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan, and the Kurile Islands and Sakhalin, which are now controlled by Russia. Before they inter-married heavily with their Japanese and Siuberian neighbors, the Ainu were a physically unique people. Whereas their neighbors had flat faces, epicanthic folds, yellow-brown skins, brown eyes, think, straight black hair on their heads, and virtually hairless bodies, the Ainu (who are now nearly gone as a physically destinct people because of intermarriage with Japanese) had short faces, high-bridged, prominent noses, no epicanthic fold, light skins, sometimes gray eyes, dense, wavy-to-frizzy hair on their heads, and unusually hair bodies. They were considered by physical anthropologists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to be Caucasoid people, and there has been endless speculation about historical ties between them and European.

Before rice farmers from Korea emigrated to the Japanese islands around 300 B.C and gave rise to the modern Japanese, the islands were occupied by a culture known as the Jomon, after the cord-marked pottery that the people produced. The Jamon culture appeared first in the archaeological record of Japan, and perhaps in neighboring Primorye (costal Siberia to the west of Japan) at around 15,000 years ago and seems to be one of the few cultural traditions anywhere in the world that continued with little interruption for more than 10,000 years. These people lived by a combination of hunting, nut gathering, and fishing in the highly productive Japanese archipelago, occasionally flowering into large societies with extensive trading relationship both internally and with the Asian mainland. Some of the Jamon had a fully maritime adaptation, catching deep sea fishes and even hunting whales from open wooden boats. Following the arrival of the Yahoi, as the Japanese rich-farming culture is known, the Jomon progressively changed as a result of both acculturation and conquest, finally being confined, after around 900 A.d., to Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and the Kurile Islands to the north. The Ainu are believed to be the last identifiable vestige of this ancient people. ~ Page 183
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