Doban-kun, which means "flat clay man" in Japanese, is 2.3 inches (5.8 centimeters) tall and 1.5 inches (3.7 cm) wide and ...

The bone fragments were once thought to be some of the oldest human fossils found in Japan. When you purchase through links ...

An early pioneering work of domestic architectural modernism with exposed concrete blocks and geometric designs stands along ...

KUMAKOGEN, Ehime Prefecture--Prehistoric people in Japan fashioned human figures from stone and adorned them with jagged lines, possibly for use in religious rituals, say researchers startled by ...

Fossilized bones discovered decades ago and hailed at the time as the oldest human remains found in Japan turn out to be from ...

In the 1950s, when they were discovered, the Ushikawa fossils were identified as parts of a human humerus (upper arm bone) and femur (leg bone), believed to be over 20,000 years old ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...