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| | Association for Asia Research- Who are the Japanese (Part II) |
 | | As the glaciations receded in Europe, the sea level rose gradually and by 15,000 year ago, the Sundaland (East Asia Lowlands) became submerged and their inhabitants were forced to migrate to higher-elevation lands of India, Indochina, China, Japan, and Korea. |
 | | The teeth evidence supports the thesis that "ancient demic diffusion commencing with the Yayoi era at about 300 B.C. when an immigrant population from continental Asia entered the archipelago in north Kyushu and expanded eastward, assimilating the aboriginal inhabitants". |
 | | Nothing certain is known of the culture of the period, though it seems likely that people lived by hunting and gathering, used fire, and made their homes either in pit-type dwellings or in caves. |
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