Studies of ancient Jomon sites in separate areas of Japan show that lifestyles of the people varied from region to region, contrary to the common belief that they were almost uniformly similar across ...

Thousands of years ago, one of our ancestors must accidentally have made their first pot. We can imagine that a lump of wet clay somehow ended up in the fire, dried out, hardened and formed a hollow ...

“The Stone Age should more accurately be called the Wood Age,” historian Yuval Noah Harari writes in his “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.” Come to think about it, wood tends to decay and ...

For the first time ever, 6,000-year-old Japanese fishing nets have been digitally resurrected, revealing a lost era of prehistoric mastery. In a groundbreaking archaeological study, researchers have ...

Using X-rays, a researcher has imaged 28 impressions of maize weevils on pottery shards from the late Jomon period (around 3,600 years ago) excavated from the Yakushoden site in Miyazaki Prefecture.

In a promotional video, Breath of the Wild art director Satoru Takizawa seemed to downplay the importance of Jomon history and culture in the new Zelda game. "The Jomon period in Japanese history was ...

The Jomon Period of Japanese history is so shrouded in the mists of time that any bid to fathom its secrets stretches even the usual astonishing bounds of prehistoric archeology. Yet as amateurs and ...

Yet the relationship between the Jomon and the Ainu is anything but straightforward. Sometime around A.D. 600 to 700 in Hokkaido, rectangular pit-houses suddenly appear, and a new type of earthenware ...

Human history is a bloody patchwork of battles and wars that leaves many to conclude our species is inexorably drawn towards violence. But a new study of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Japan has ...

Thousands of years ago, one of our ancestors must accidentally have made their first pot. We can imagine that a lump of wet clay somehow ended up in the fire, dried out, hardened and formed a hollow ...