The Jomon Pottery Culture Period flourished from around 14500 B.C. to 1000 B.C. and boasted distinctive rope-patterned earthenware. Marked differences in how people lived emerged from a ...

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

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 ...

they had few qualms about assuming the Ainu were living representatives of Jomon culture. However, the Ainu, at least in the last few centuries according to historic records, lived in above-ground ...

Jomon: 10,000 Years of Nostalgia Today in Japan, the Jomon period is experiencing a quiet boom. Jomon is a unique Japanese culture that lasted approximately 13,000 years in the pre-Christian age ...

The long-standing theory that the earliest Native Americans migrated to the Western Hemisphere from Japan is facing significant scientific scrutiny. A new study challenges the idea that these early ...

and meet craftspeople inspired by Jomon culture. The Sannai-Maruyama Site is one of the largest Jomon sites in Japan ...

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 East Anglia, is a specialist in ancient Japanese culture ...

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 East Anglia, is a specialist in ancient Japanese culture ...