ABSTRACT
The various cultural influences and new technologies brought from the mainland to Japan at the beginning of the Yayoi period have been outlined in Chapters 10 and 11. However, pottery made either in Korea or Japan, in the same form and by the same techniques as pottery in Korea, is very rarely found in Initial (I) and Early (II) Yayoi sites. Nevertheless, 200-300 years into the Yayoi, towards the end of Early (II) Yayoi, settlements accompanied mainly by Korean pottery appeared in northern Kyushu among otherwise typical villages with indigenous Yayoi pottery. Such settlements are considered to have been hamlets inhabited by immigrants from Korea, v/ho acted as intermediaries between Korea and Japan.
