Yayoi pottery
Cerámica Yayoi
- Date
- c. 300 BCE-300 CE · confidence medium
- Place
- Japan
- Credited to
- Anonymous potters of the Yayoi period; the period was identified and dated by Tsuboi Shōgorō and other Japanese archaeologists in 1884
- Field
- Tools
What it is
Japanese Iron Age pottery that gives its name to the Yayoi period (c. 300 BC-AD 300), associated with the introduction of rice farming and new social structures; archaeologically identified in 1884.
Wikidata's year 1884 corresponds to the archaeological identification of the period, not to the pottery's manufacture, traditionally dated between 300 BC and AD 300.
What it led to
- Identification of the Yayoi period as a Japanese cultural stage
- Modern chronology of Japanese prehistory
- Studies on the introduction of rice farming in Japan
- Archaeological distinction from the earlier Jōmon pottery