Experimental archaeologists completed a 45-hour canoe trip from Taiwan to Japan using only Paleolithic equipment.

The successfully re-enacted voyage suggests that early modern humans likely had a high level of strategic seafaring knowledge ...

Some 30,000 years ago, humans sailed 140 miles from Taiwan to Japan’s southern Yonaguni Island, navigating the Pacific Ocean’s powerful Kuroshio currents. But how exactly did they manage to complete ...

Long-standing questions about the migration of early modern humans in East Asia may finally be answered, thanks to a rare and ...

Archaeological evidence shows that 30,000 years ago, Palaeolithic people travelled from the island now known as Taiwan to the ...

Experiments and simulations show Paleolithic paddlers could outwit the powerful Kuroshio Current by launching dugout canoes from northern Taiwan and steering southeast toward Okinawa. A modern ...

More powerful Pacific cyclones are speeding up the Kuroshio Current, which is ferrying heat northward affecting the global climate.

“The Kuroshio Current Extension is home to some of the highest biodiversity (number of organisms) in the world ocean today,” Adriane R. Lam, a paleoceanographer and Binghamton University ...

The “Current” in the restaurant’s name references the nearly 2,000-mile Kuroshio Current, a major ocean current in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, and “Charcoal Grill” alludes to a ...

The simulation revealed that skillful boat-making and navigation could overcome the Kuroshio Current even with ancient tools.

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

This pavilion is themed on the Kuroshio Current, an ocean stream that served ships plying Asia in the age of Exploration. The grand staircase leading to the entrance evokes the life-giving sea and ...