TOKYO -- Three artifacts described as "dogu" earthenware figurines from Japan's ancient Jomon period were removed from the ...

In the waning years of the Jomon Pottery Culture Period (c. 14500 B.C.-1000 B.C.), Japan had a population of 75,800, of whom a whopping 52 percent were estimated to live in the Tohoku region ...

During Japan's Jomon period from about 16,000 years ago to 3,000 years ago, people lived as hunter-gatherers. As some of their DNA was passed down to modern Japanese, unraveling their genome is ...

The Jomon Pottery Culture Period flourished from ... “The culture at Sannai Maruyama closely resembles that of the period of Japan’s high economic growth,” he said.

Yonaguni could have been a result of centuries worth of erosion or a creation of an ancient civilization, speculate experts.

A long-standing model of Japanese origins is a dual-ancestral structure comprising the Jomon, who were hunter ... the state ...

and even the whole historic period in which they were lived. It was the Jomon people living in what is now northern Japan, who created the world's first pots. Simon Kaner, of the University of ...

Starting about 400 B.C., the Jomon in southwestern Japan had given way to strong influences ... a significant commitment to agriculture. This period (400 B.C. to A.D. 300) was the time of the ...

Japan had proposed an expansion of the catch ... of kitchen waste in Iwate Prefecture dating from the prehistoric Jomon period, which began about 15,000 years ago and is described as lasting ...

This spring and summer, Japan’s ancient aesthetic heritage meets the cutting edge of animation. On at the Tokyo National ...

and even the whole historic period in which they were lived. It was the Jomon people living in what is now northern Japan, who created the world's first pots. Simon Kaner, of the University of ...