En Iwamura's playful, wistful sculptures reference the historical nature of masks while reflecting their role in our ...

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.

Jomon potteries excavated from the Odake shell midden (Early Jomon). A buried skeleton in this site had a specific burial practice in which the body was placed in a flexed position with bent legs.

It was a time when pit-buildings, pottery, and bows and arrows started to be used. Jomon ruins found throughout Japan number up to 90,000 locations. We go on a journey all over Japan to discover ...

While ancient cultures like the Maya and Olmec used jade 2,000 to 3,000 years ago, people in Japan used jade an incredible 7,000 years ago during the latter part of the early Jomon Pottery Culture ...

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 ...

Stone Age hunters and gatherers who make jomon (rope-patterned) pottery inhabit Japan ... Legends surrounding the founding of Japan are compiled as history in the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) ...

This effectively means variations in modern day Japanese genetic patterns can be explained by the historical influence of ancient Jomon hunter-gatherers and two continental groups from Northeast ...

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.