Earlier this week, we reported on a Swedish archaeologist who spent the last three years sailing the fjords in a replica boat similar to those the Vikings may have used. Not to be outdone, Japanese ...

Thousands of stone tools discovered in a South African cave reveal that Ice Age humans had developed sophisticated fabrication techniques about 20,000 years ago, according to a report in the Journal ...

East Asian Paleolithic voyagers may have used dugout canoes to cross one of the strongest currents in the world. By Laura Baisas Published Jun 25, 2025 2:00 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

A dugout canoe is pictured before departure on a crossing across a region of the East China Sea to Yonaguni Island (Reuters) -Our species arose in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago and later trekked ...

Experiments and simulations show Paleolithic paddlers could outwit the powerful Kuroshio Current by launching dugout canoes from northern Taiwan and steering southeast toward Okinawa. A modern crew ...

When and where the earliest modern human populations migrated and settled in East Asia are relatively well known. However, how these populations moved between islands on treacherous stretches of sea ...

When most people think of the Paleolithic era, they likely think of ancient hominins with spears chasing after wooly mammoths. Or they think of cave men numbly knocking rocks together, waiting for a ...

Archaeologists estimate that humans first arrived on the Ryukyu Islands off the southwestern coast of Japan sometime between 35,000 and 27,500 years ago. How they did so, however, remains a mystery, ...

About 30,000 years ago, humans arrived in Japan's southern Ryukyu Islands, 110km from Taiwan. The archaeological record hasn't preserved any clues as to how these Paleolithic people made the crossing ...

The team set out in their handmade canoe. (Yousuke Kaifu/University of Tokyo) (CN) — The nearly 25-foot longboat cuts through the waves with ease. The vessel, also called a dugout canoe, was ...