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.

The Kaizuka people are Okinawa’s equivalent of the Jomon (c. 14500 B.C.-1000 B.C.) people who occupied Japan’s main islands and are known for their distinctive pottery culture. Remains of ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...