OTSU—A nearly intact pottery vessel believed to be over 10,000 years old was discovered near the Tsuzuraozaki underwater ...

Researchers in Japan discovered a pottery vessel over 10,000 years old in Lake Biwako, the oldest artifact found at the ...

“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 ...

A few years ago, 17 Jomon archeological sites in Japan’s four northernmost prefectures received UNESCO World Heritage designation, sparking fresh interest in Japan’s ancient Jomon heritage. Jomon is ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Jomon pottery(Shigeki Nakagome, Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin) Jomon skeleton, Japan(Shigeki Nakagome, Assistant ...

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 ...