A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo has published a study that challenges the traditional theory about how the ...

Sites used in the study. The 17 sites from which samples were examined for this study, with a blow out showing Chiba ...

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. Thus, ...

A Japan-based research team led by Professor Hiroki Obata has been continuing the work of identifying cultivated plants and household pests from Japan’s Jomon period (16,500 – 2,800 years ago) using ...

Researchers have conducted a census of the Japanese population around 2,500 years ago using the Y chromosomes of men living on the main islands of modern-day Japan. This is the first time analysis of ...

TOKYO, JAPAN—Analysis of the genome of a woman who was buried on Japan’s northern island of Rebunto during the Jomon Period, some 3,800 years ago, revealed similarities to the genomes of people who ...

Background to the study : overview of the Jomon Period -- Subsistence strategies -- Settlement archaeology -- Mortuary and ceremonial practices -- Crafts and exchange networks -- Discussion and ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido is well known for its world-class powder snow, delicious food and unspoiled nature. Few people outside the country, however, are ...

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