The Funadomari Jōmon Woman

From a shell mound on a small island off Hokkaidō came Japan's celebrity ancient genome: a Jōmon woman whose face, reconstructed from her DNA, gazed from newspapers across the country. Her people were master potters and sea-mammal hunters whose lineage had been isolated in the Japanese islands for over fifteen thousand years — and lives on today, strongest among the Ainu.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in Late Jomon male and female genome sequences from the Funadomari site.

Every Ancestrify Global25 report includes the free Notable Matches lens: your coordinates are compared to every sequenced member of every catalog entry, and the distance to the closest member is reported — a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional space the Distance lens uses. Because this is a single real individual, not a population average, distances naturally run larger than population distances — that is expected, not a poor result. And one thing is never claimed: a small distance means similar ancestry composition, not that the Funadomari Jōmon Woman is your ancestor. See how it looks in the live demo or read about the full G25 analysis.

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  Who was the Funadomari Jōmon Woman?

  The Funadomari Jōmon Woman (c. 1800–1500 BCE, Rebun Island, Japan) is one of the Iconic discoveries entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by one sequenced ancient genome published in the study "Late Jomon male and female genome sequences from the Funadomari site".

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  What does "matching" the Funadomari Jōmon Woman mean?

  Your Global25 coordinates are compared to the entry's sequenced members and the distance to the closest one is reported — a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional reference space the Distance lens uses. A notable entry is one person or one small burial group, not a population average, so distances naturally run larger than population distances.

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  Is the Funadomari Jōmon Woman my ancestor?

  No — and no DNA test can show that. A small distance means your genome sits near this individual's in a shared reference space: similar ancestry composition, not descent. Ancestrify never claims a notable individual is your ancestor or relative.

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  How do I see my own distance to the Funadomari Jōmon Woman?

  Notable Matches is a free lens on every Ancestrify Global25 report — never sold separately. Order the G25 analysis (29.99 EUR), and your report ranks your coordinates against the full catalog, with a portrait, dossier and map for every entry. The public demo shows the lens with example data.

The catalog holds every published entry across three tiers — browse the full Notable Matches directory. Nearby entries:

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