“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 ...

Archaeological sites in Hokkaido and the northern Tohoku region dating to the prehistoric Jomon Period, which lasted more than 10,000 years, are expected to soon be added to UNESCO’s World ...

During Japan's Jomon period from about 16,000 years ago to 3,000 years ago, people lived as hunter-gatherers.

Today in Japan, the Jomon period is experiencing a quiet boom. Jomon is a unique Japanese culture that lasted approximately 13,000 years in the pre-Christian age, within the Mesolithic and ...

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 ...

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 ...