Finding on Dialect Casts New Light on Origins of the Japanese People May 4, 2011, New York Times By NICHOLAS WADE Researchers studying the various dialects of Japanese have concluded that all are descended from a founding language taken to the Japanese … Continue reading →
Rice traced to single domestication event in China (BBC, May 3, 2011) Scientists have shed new light on the origins of rice, one of the most important staple foods today. A study of the rice genome suggests that the crop … Continue reading →
OTSU (Kyodo)–A red-painted human skull has been found inside a stone coffin excavated from a fifth-century tomb in Otsu, a local conservation association said. The box-shaped coffin, which was found almost perfectly preserved in a tomb from the early fifth … Continue reading →
JUST ADDED!! Fujinoki Tomb: Horse’s harness, splendid glass, stones and other tomb treasures hint of Korean connections
Until recently, the academic consensus has been that the origin of Paleolithic settlers of Okinawa as typified by the human fossil Minatogawa Man I was likely to have been continental, since the human fossils of Minatogawa Man were considered to … Continue reading →
