A man was out exploring North Carolina’s South River when he noticed something unusual bobbing in the water. It appeared to ...

Some 30,000 years ago, humans sailed 140 miles from Taiwan to Japan’s southern Yonaguni Island, navigating the Pacific ...

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

TOLEDO, Ohio — Carbon dating has revealed the age of an object that is among the oldest artifacts in northwest Ohio. The ...

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

Experiments and simulations show Paleolithic paddlers could outwit the powerful Kuroshio Current by launching dugout canoes ...

Twenty-three of the canoes were found in Lake Phelps in eastern North Carolina, with the oldest being “carbon dated to 2430 ...

East Asian Paleolithic voyagers may have used dugout canoes to cross one of the strongest currents in the world.

The finished dugout canoe before departure, with leaf wave guards at the bow ( right) and stern ( left ). Vertical sticks at ...

When and where the earliest modern human populations migrated and settled in East Asia is relatively well known. However, how ...

12-foot dugout canoe found afloat in North Carolina River could be thousands of years old, state archaeologists say. It was found by a sportsman in South River.

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