The Penn Museum, in collaboration with the Penn Libraries, recently launched various Ainu-themed programming, including a documentary screening and an ongoing exhibit on Ainu representation in media.

SAPPORO--The remains of four Ainu indigenous people were returned to Japan on May 8 from Australia where they had been taken for research purposes prior to 1940. Records show the remains of one ...

The Jomon Pottery Culture Period (c. 14,500 B.C.-1,000 B.C.) was coined as a translation of “cord-marked,” first used by Edward Morse, who in 1877 conducted one of the earliest excavations of ...