On this National Canoe Day, learn about early canoe experiments William W. Fitzhugh and Harri Luukkanen Detail of a figure featuring the Nganasan kukhungondu reindeer skin–covered boat of Taimyr, made ...
Researchers have explored how early modern humans migrated by sea from Taiwan to southern Japan approximately 30,000 years ago. To unravel the mysteries of these difficult ancient voyages, the ...
More than 30,000 years ago, seafaring humans made a momentous trek from present-day Taiwan to the Ryukyu Islands of southwestern Japan—a journey of some 140 miles without any of the advanced ...