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A walk on Mt. Mitake brings encounters with wolf and mountain lore
Musashi-Mitake-jinja The Musashi-Mitake-jinja Shrine is believed to have been founded in 90 BC by Emperor Sujin, which makes it one of the oldest in Japan. However, the shrine also records that Priest...
View ArticleALDH2 and migration patterns into Japan
Hu Li et al.,2009, Refined Geographic Distribution of the Oriental ALDH2*504Lys (nee 487Lys) Variant Summary Mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH2) is one of the most important enzymes in human...
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It’s time to embrace northern route dispersal scenarios for the migration of...
Source: Ancient Eurasian DNA sequencing is revealing links with modern humans Many voices and new models disproving the Southern Dispersal route model (following the coast of India) have been steadily...
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Large scale whole genome sequencing 2020 study elucidates the genetic and...
Fig. 1: High-resolution spectra of mtDNA haplogroups in the Japanese population. From: Genetic and phenotypic landscape of the mitochondrial genome in the Japanese population (Open Access pub. under...
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A treasure trove of 103 ‘lost’ drawings by Hokusai emerges in the Piasa...
Preparatory drawing (hanshita-e) for an illustrated book, mounted on card. Sea monster assailing a ship. Ink on paper.© The Trustees of the British Museum Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0...
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A study of maize weevils from ancient Jomon pottery shows they stored acorns...
Image of a maize weevil impression from the surface of a pottery fragment.CREDIT: Prof. Hiroki Obata Researchers from Kumamoto University have studied nationwide maize weevil impressions from 10,000...
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During which season did the Jomon people gather and eat shellfish?
An exhibit featured this week at Tama Center’s Jomon Village Archaeological Center reveals that the Jomon people collected shellfish mostly during the spring to summer seasons. Exhibit at Tama Center’s...
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Maedakochi site: Jomon village life during the Incipient Jomon Period
Maedakochi site and the recreated landscape of Tama Hills during the Incipient Jomon Period (Photo: Heritage of Japan) First things first… Announcement! We are slowly (it will be a laborious work in...
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Migrants arrive to form the Okhotsk culture in northern Hokkaido, bringing a...
Here, I’d like to highlight data from two papers about the prehistoric dispersal routes of barley from Eurasia into Hokkaido. From the first, Lister 2018, I draw our attention to the proposed routes...
View ArticleTomb secrets yet to be unlocked from 1,600 years ago
Click here to see video https://www.bbc.com/reel/embed/p07lq60x Key-hole shaped tombs in Japan. Video by Matt DworzańczykImage courtesy of Sakai City Government and Sakai City Museum...
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