{"id":72739,"date":"2025-07-04T08:05:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/04\/cramps-fatigue-and-hallucinations-paddling-200km-in-a-paleolithic-canoe-from-taiwan-to-japan"},"modified":"2025-07-04T08:05:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:05:01","slug":"cramps-fatigue-and-hallucinations-paddling-200km-in-a-paleolithic-canoe-from-taiwan-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72739","title":{"rendered":"Cramps, fatigue and hallucinations: paddling 200km in a Paleolithic canoe from Taiwan to Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team battled a notoriously strong current and used the stars as their guide to reach an island in an unstable vessel made of Japanese cedar<\/p>\n<p>Dr Yousuke Kaifu was working at an archaeological site on the Japanese islands of Okinawa when a question started to bubble in his mind. The pieces unearthed in the excavation, laid out before him, revealed evidence of humans living there 30,000 years ago, arriving from the north and the south. But how did they get there?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are stone tools and archaeological remains at the site but they don\u2019t answer those questions,\u201d Kaifu, an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Tokyo, says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/04\/cramps-fatigue-and-hallucinations-paddling-200km-in-a-paleolithic-canoe-from-taiwan-to-japan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team battled a notoriously strong current and used the stars as their guide to reach an island in an unstable vessel made of Japanese cedarDr Yousuke Kaifu was working at an archaeological site on the Japanese islands of Okinawa when a question sta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72740,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72739\/revisions\/72740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}