Haniwa are terracotta clay figures that were made during the Kofun Period (3rd to 7th centuries), presumably as funerary objects. I visited the Tokyo National Museum where a special exhibition is ...

The estimated average height of Japanese men reached 163 centimeters during the Kofun Period, which ran from the end of the third century to around the seventh century. But then they began to shrink.

This was recently refined by the tripartite model, which also incorporates East Asian ancestry linked to the state formation phase, the Kofun period, which began around 1,700 years ago.