Japan’s rich history spans millennia, from its earliest prehistoric civilization, the Jomon, known for their intricate ...

Various hypotheses have been proposed in anthropology and archaeology about the origin of the Japanese people. The prehistoric time of Japan is divided into the Jomon, Yayoi and Kofun periods.

By studying prehistoric rocks and fossils emerging from the side of Mount Ashibetsu in Japan, researchers have precisely refined the timing and duration of Ocean Anoxic Event 1a (OAE 1a), an ...

NAHA, JAPAN— The Mainichi reports that a bead made of shell and red iron oxide pigment recovered from Sakitari-do Cave in southern Okinawa has been dated to 23,000 years ago by researchers at ...

“It must have cast the most extraordinary shadows.” “ Circles of Stone: Stonehenge and Prehistoric Japan” is on view at Stonehenge through August 2023.

University Prof. C. Loring Brace has found a link between prehistoric dwellers of present-day Japan and the first humans to live in North America. Brace, curator of biological anthropology at the ...

World Fossil of prehistoric ‘dragon’ — as big as a great white shark — unearthed in Japan By Brendan Rascius Updated December 14, 2023 2:35 PM ...

People around the world are fascinated by dinosaurs and the prehistoric world in which they lived. In Japan, the country's first university faculty dedicated to dinosaur studies was inaugurated this ...

While examining the skeletal remains of a prehistoric hunter-gatherer cemetery in Japan dating back some 3,000 years, University of Oxford archaeologists found distinctive evidence that one such ...

Scientists now have undertaken an experimental voyage across a stretch of the East China Sea, paddling from Ushibi in eastern Taiwan to Japan’s Yonaguni Island in a dugout canoe to demonstrate ...

Fossil of “blue dragon,” aquatic creature the size of a great white shark that lived 72 million years ago, discovered in Japan, study says.