The researchers first thought that early humans might have used rafts, but earlier experiments proved rafts were too slow and ...

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

The remains of large predatory pelagic fish at these sites indicate the capacity for advanced seafaring and knowledge of the ...

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

In a new study published today in Science Advances, my colleagues and I have uncovered the earliest evidence of rice in the Pacific Islands—at an ancient cave site on Guam in the Mariana Islands of ...

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

Archaeologists have long puzzled over stone spheroids—round limestone objects found at ancient sites across the globe. These ...

The world’s oldest map of the night sky was amazingly accurate. Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient ...

Because of their position between East and West Asia, the Central Asian cities of Samarkand and Bukhara served as important Silk Road hubs. Much later, they became cities in the Soviet republic of ...