It’s calming,” one visitor said, “and I get to focus on painting. The atmosphere is very relaxing, and the owners are like ...

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

It's long been assumed the Jomon people, who had inhabited the Japanese archipelago since around 16,000 years ago, had multiple lineages resulting from different migration routes. But new genetic ...

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

A 10,000-year-old pottery vessel has been discovered in Lake Biwa, Japan, providing rare insight into the Jomon period, one of the world’s oldest civilizations. The vessel, discovered at a depth of 64 ...

For the first time since it began receiving the Macdonald porcelain collection in 2004, Toronto’s Gardiner Museum has made space to show all of it, more than 300 pieces, by arranging new displays in ...

A nearly complete pottery vessel estimated to be over 10,000 years old has been recovered from the bottom of Lake Biwako, Japan, marking the oldest artifact found at the site to date, the Shiga ...

A few years ago, 17 Jomon archeological sites in Japan’s four northernmost prefectures received UNESCO World Heritage designation, sparking fresh interest in Japan’s ancient Jomon heritage. Jomon is ...

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A dogū from the Jomon culture wearing a mask at the Chino City Togariishi Jomon Archaeological Museum. Credit: Aqua Regia 9278 / Wikimedia Commons A pioneering study tracing Denisovan DNA fragments ...