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

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

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

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 ...

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

A Japanese team has concluded that it was possible to travel from Taiwan to Japan's westernmost island of Yonaguni in a ...

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

The journey capped off years of test models analyzing how ancient people in East Asia may have navigated through the powerful ...

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 ...

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 ...