We conduct paleogenomic analyses of people of the Jomon, Yayoi, ... i.e. the Jomon period, Yayoi period and Kofun period, respectively. Legend: Jomon sites; IK002 ...

TOKYO -- Ancient Jomon people living in coastal areas who fished at sea had thicker arm bones than those living inland, the National Museum of Nature and Science and other authorities disclosed.

Researchers have discovered an ancient Japanese pottery vessel from the late Jomon period (4500-3300 BP) with an estimated 500 maize weevils incorporated into its design. The vessel was discovered ...

A new study suggests that modern Japanese have descended from three ancestral populations, including people in the Kofun Period between the third and seventh century. According to current ...

Researchers have discovered an ancient Japanese pottery vessel from the late Jomon period (4500-3300 BP) with an estimated 500 maize weevils incorporated into its design. The vessel was discovered ...

The Jomon Period is the earliest historical era of Japanese history. It began around 14500 BCE, at the same time as the Neolithic Period in Europe and Asia, and ended around 300 BCE when the Yayoi ...

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.

They are Jomon - or 'cord-pattern' pots. And the word Jomon has come to be used not just for the objects, but for the people that made them, and even the whole historic period in which they were ...

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee decided on July 27 it will register prehistoric Jomon Period archaeological sites in Hokkaido and the northern Tohoku region to the World Cultural Heritage list.