Experiments and simulations show Paleolithic paddlers could outwit the powerful Kuroshio Current by launching dugout canoes ...

In the forests of eastern Taiwan, a team of scientists set out to answer a question that has puzzled archaeologists for ...

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

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

East Asian Paleolithic voyagers may have used dugout canoes to cross one of the strongest currents in the world.

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 ...

In a new study, researchers reenacted how people in Taiwan might have reached the Ryukyu Islands tens of thousands of years ...

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

When and where the earliest modern human populations migrated and settled in East Asia is relatively well known. However, how ...

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

Scientists now have undertaken an experimental voyage across a stretch of the East China Sea, paddling from Ushibi in eastern ...

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