Earlier this week, we reported on a Swedish archaeologist who spent the last three years sailing the fjords in a replica boat similar to those the Vikings may have used. Not to be outdone, Japanese ...

Experiments and simulations show Paleolithic paddlers could outwit the powerful Kuroshio Current by launching dugout canoes from northern Taiwan and steering southeast toward Okinawa. A modern crew ...

Archaeologists estimate that humans first arrived on the Ryukyu Islands off the southwestern coast of Japan sometime between 35,000 and 27,500 years ago. How they did so, however, remains a mystery, ...

When most people think of the Paleolithic era, they likely think of ancient hominins with spears chasing after wooly mammoths. Or they think of cave men numbly knocking rocks together, waiting for a ...

The team set out in their handmade canoe, making the entire experience as authentic as possible. A team led by anthropologist Yousuke Kaifu from the University of Tokyo created various simulations, ...

When and where the earliest modern human populations migrated and settled in East Asia are relatively well known. However, how these populations moved between islands on treacherous stretches of sea ...

Paleolithic tools found at the Namorotukunan site in Kenya suggest that early Homo species kept their technology going even ...

A tiny figurine depicting a goose mounting a woman reveals early evidence of animistic belief in southwest Asia.

The discovery of a stone long overlooked in a German museum suggests that Ice Age communities experimented with vivid hues far earlier than scholars believed. A stone artifact from near the end of the ...

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