Hello!
How are you? Today let's look a little more at the origins (起源) of the Ainu.
There are some interesting theories about where the Ainu come from - some of which are very different from one another.
Before we begin, here's a refresher about last week's (6/10) board notes:
Activity
Genetic testing shows that most Ainu belong to Y-haplogroup D-M55, and have a higher frequency of Y-DNA haplogroup D1b than most Japanese.
What do you think are the origins of the Ainu? Are they a completely indigenous (先住民) people, or did they come from somewhere else? If so, where did they come from, and how did they get to Japan?
Here are two maps showing two (2) possible routes about where the Ainu might genetically have come from:
Write out some notes about your ideas - most importantly, give some reasons why you think so in your notes. If you believe they came from elsewhere, draw a rough map - or find another map on the internet - of where you believe they came from.
Then write 1-2 practice paragraphs about where you believe they came from and how they came to Japan.
Then let's share our ideas to each other with our writing, and show any extra maps you might have found or drew.
I hope this helps you further with your understanding of the Ainu.
See you next time!
There are some interesting theories about where the Ainu come from - some of which are very different from one another.
Before we begin, here's a refresher about last week's (6/10) board notes:
Genetic testing shows that most Ainu belong to Y-haplogroup D-M55, and have a higher frequency of Y-DNA haplogroup D1b than most Japanese.
What do you think are the origins of the Ainu? Are they a completely indigenous (先住民) people, or did they come from somewhere else? If so, where did they come from, and how did they get to Japan?
Here are two maps showing two (2) possible routes about where the Ainu might genetically have come from:
Then write 1-2 practice paragraphs about where you believe they came from and how they came to Japan.
Then let's share our ideas to each other with our writing, and show any extra maps you might have found or drew.
I hope this helps you further with your understanding of the Ainu.
See you next time!
Images: By A_large_blank_world_map_with_oceans_marked_in_blue-edited.png: Mmiklederivative work: Ephert (talk) - map: A_large_blank_world_map_with_oceans_marked_in_blue-edited.png*data: W. W. Howells, Getting here: the story of human evolution (1993), p. 206, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16425098/Board notes - personal photograph/Upper genetic route map - by ABCEditer - Own work by reference to 崎谷満（2009）『DNA・考古・言語の学際研究が示す新・日本列島史 日本人集団・日本語の成立史』勉誠出版, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62921263/Lower genetic route map - by Y-dna data file - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63590897
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