Experimental archaeologists completed a 45-hour canoe trip from Taiwan to Japan using only Paleolithic equipment.

Five paddlers journeyed from Taiwan to Japan’s southern Yonaguni Island in 45 hours. Their efforts provide new insights into prehistoric mariners' tools and techniques ...

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and ...

To unravel the mysteries of these difficult voyages, the researchers employed a unique combination of numerical simulations ...

Researchers used a canoe replica to trace Paleolithic migration from Taiwan to Japan, showing how early humans crossed seas ...

Canoe is paddled 140 miles (225km) across the open sea The journey is from Taiwan to Japan’s Yonaguni Island Research is reminiscent of famed 1947 ...

The successfully re-enacted voyage suggests that early modern humans likely had a high level of strategic seafaring knowledge ...

Researchers recreated a 30,000-year-old ocean journey from Taiwan to Japan using canoes and simulations to test early human ...

A research group in Japan has made a supercomputer simulation on how ancient people crossed the waters between Taiwan and the ...

Turbo sazae, Jeju Island, East Sea, climate change, marine life, ocean currents, genetics, sea warming, migration, ...

Paddling over 45 hours across the open sea, the crew navigated using only the sun and stars to overcome the strong Kuroshio current.

Around 30,000 years ago, prehistoric humans left Taiwan to settle on Japan's Ryukyu Islands, but scientists have long been perplexed about how they managed to cross the East China Sea. To answer this ...