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

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 ...

Brief synthesis Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan consists of 17 archaeological sites that represent the pre-agricultural lifeways and complex spiritual culture of a prehistoric people.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

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