Studies of ancient Jomon sites in separate areas of Japan show that lifestyles of the people varied from region to region, contrary to the common belief that they were almost uniformly similar ...

A study has reported that the genetic characteristics of the Jomon people, a hunter-gatherer population living in ancient Japan, are associated with a high body mass index (BMI). The study also ...

Despite an incredibly rich prehistory covering nearly ten thousand years, modern coverage of complex hunter-gatherer societies has tended to overlook the Jomon of Japan. This text presents an overview ...

During Japan's Jomon period from about 16,000 years ago to 3,000 years ago, people lived as hunter-gatherers. As some of their DNA was passed down to modern Japanese, unraveling their genome is ...

What kind of ideas did the Jomon people, the distant ancestors of contemporary Japanese, have about plants? Fumito Takekura, a Japanese anthropologist, tries to answer this question in his recent ...

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 ...

Japan may be an international travel hub for business and pleasure today, but the islands were relatively isolated until ...

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 ...