Overview [ edit ] The relationship of Jōmon people to the modern Japanese ( Yamato people ), Ryukyuans , and Ainu is diverse and not well clarified. Morphological studies of dental variation and genetic studies suggest that the Jōmon people were of southern origin, while other studies of bacteria suggest that the Jōmon people were of possible northern origin. [40] [41] According to recent studies the contemporary Japanese people descended from a mixture of the ancient hunter-gatherer Jōmon and the Yayoi rice agriculturalists, and these two major ancestral groups came to Japan over different routes at different times. [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] Recent studies however support a predominantly Yayoi ancestry for contemporary Japanese people. [48] Migration route of paternal haplogroup C. The Jōmon people were not one homogenous ethnic group. According to Mitsuru Sakitani the Jōmon people are an admixture of two distinct haplogroups: A more ancient group from Central Asia
