>We now know that human beings have lived on the Japanese archipelago for about 100,000 years. Volume I of The Cambridge History of Japan proposes to cover the first 99,000 years,
>540 pages
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>>364359
Not implausible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_Man is ~750k years old. Hominids have been in East Asia for a long time.
>>364359
Homo the Genus, not Homo sapiens (if it's even true at all)
>>364363
Moar like the first Turk amiright?
>>364359
So what are you saying exactly? Surprised that 99k years of history are told in a mere 540 pages? You gotta do with what you have in hand when very, very few artifacts of ancient times have managed to survive the soil conditions of Japan.
>>364370
Nah he looks like a human panda
>>364359
Although Japan was inhabited, its population had been pretty small until wet-rice farming was introduced. China, for example, had a population of over 10 million circa 1000 BC while Japan had less than 100,000, which was smaller than that of the largest cities in China. With such a sparse population - even the largest villages barely had a population of hundreds - you can't expect something big happens.
>>364359
Not much happened in the time. It was only in 200BC that Japan actually stopped being simple hunter gatherer tribes. It was around that time that settlers from the mainland arrived in Western Japan, quickly spreading and outbreeding the local population, leading to a rapid increase of people (from 100.000 to roughly 4 million in a few decades), as well as a genetic change from the original Japanese (the Jomon) to what we consider the current Japanese (a mixture of Korean/Chinese).
It was only in 50AD that there was the first written mention of a kingdom of Japan. The Han writings mention a kingdom of Wa on the Japanese peninsula on which was bestowed a royal seal by the emperor of Han.
>>365199
On an unrelated note, I find it crazy how much of latercomer Japan was, considering that Sun Tzu and Confucius had lived and died 500 years before even the first kingdom arose in Japan.
>>364359
HISTORY.
>>364359
>The Cambridge History of Japan vol.1 (1993)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Paleolithic_hoax
Unfortunately, the book has been rendered garbage when the hoax was exposed in 2000. Two-thirds of the time period covered now doesn't exist.
