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

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

Some 30,000 years ago, humans sailed 140 miles from Taiwan to Japan’s southern Yonaguni Island, navigating the Pacific ...

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

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

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

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

Our species arose in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago and later trekked worldwide, eventually reaching some of Earth's most ...

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

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

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

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