Thanks to modern-day genome sequencing technology, we now know more about Japan's ancient world than ever before — and all ...

Studies of ancient Jomon sites in separate areas of Japan show that lifestyles of the ... uniformly similar across the country. The Jomon Pottery Culture Period flourished from around 14500 ...

Today, we're in Japan, about seven thousand years ago, with an ancient pot made in ... having no pottery tradition to learn from, the Jomon looked at what they already had - baskets.

Emblazoned with big letters spelling out JOMON JAPAN, banners snapped in the ... To the delight of local residents, 17 ancient Jomon Pottery Culture Period (14,500-1000 B.C.) sites spanning ...

Sometime around A.D. 600 to 700 in Hokkaido, rectangular pit-houses suddenly appear, and a new type of earthenware called "Satsumon" pottery ... B.C., the Jomon in southwestern Japan had given ...

And given that modern Japanese inherited ... and precise sequencing of ancient human DNA was an extraordinary feat. The researchers call it a "world first." The Jomon woman's skull is seen from ...

Today, we're in Japan, about seven thousand years ago, with an ancient pot made in ... having no pottery tradition to learn from, the Jomon looked at what they already had - baskets.