Heritage of Japan

Click here to see video https://www.bbc.com/reel/embed/p07lq60x All kind of megalithic pyramids have awed the ancient local populace for generations. Japan’s ancient Kofun tombs remain relative...

https://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/2021/05/02/tomb-secrets-yet-to-be-unlocked-from-1600-years-ago/

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...

https://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/2020/10/28/migrants-arrive-to-form-the-okhotsk-culture-in-northern-hokkaido-bringing-a-type-of-barley-different-from-that-of-the-satsumon-people/

First things first… Announcement! We are slowly (it will be a laborious work in progress) moving to a new website (still with WordPress), uploading a few pages at a time. If you like the look o...

https://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/2020/10/26/maedakochi-site-jomon-village-life-during-the-incipient-jomon-period/

Announcement! We are slowly (it will be a laborious work in progress) moving to a new website (still with WordPress), uploading a few pages at a time. If you like the look of the new Heritage of ...

https://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/2020/10/09/during-which-season-did-the-jomon-people-gather-and-eat-shellfish/

Researchers from Kumamoto University have studied nationwide maize weevil impressions from 10,000 year-old pottery,  from the southern Japanese island of Tanegashima,  to pottery fragments from...

https://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/2020/09/17/a-study-of-maize-weevils-from-ancient-jomon-pottery-shows-they-stored-acorns-and-chestnuts-long-before-rice-cultivation/

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) 103 recently uncovered drawings by the Japanese painter and printmaker Katsushika Hokusai were added to the British Museu...

https://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/2020/09/05/a-treasure-trove-of-103-lost-drawings-by-hokusai-emerges-in-the-piasa-auction-house-in-paris/

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....

https://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/2020/07/17/large-scale-whole-genome-sequencing-2020-study-elucidates-the-genetic-and-phenotypic-landscapes-of-mtdna-in-the-japanese-population/

Many voices and new models disproving the Southern Dispersal route model (following the coast of India) have been steadily coming onstream for a while, but it has been difficult to dislodge the c...

https://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/2019/08/18/its-time-to-embrace-northern-route-dispersal-scenarios-for-the-migration-of-modern-humans/

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 ...

https://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/2019/08/10/aldh2-and-migration-patterns-into-japan/

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 Gyōki built a...

https://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/2018/01/08/a-walk-on-mt-mitake-brings-encounters-with-wolf-and-mountain-lore/