The Ainu and Ryukyuan Peoples
We shift our focus to the far north to the ancient Ainu people who lived on Hokkaido and Sakhalin, then to the far south to the ancient Ryukyuan people who live on Okinawan Islands.Support the show My latest novel, "Califia's Crusade," is now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books, Bookshop.org, and many other online platforms!
18 Jun 202014min
The Pleistocene Era and the Jōmon Period
We begin 35,000 years ago with the earliest known humans who lived on Japan, the paleolithic hunter-gatherers, followed by the semi-sedentary Jōmon people. Little is known for certain about either group, but I try to construct a basic outline for what their lives would have been like.Support the show My latest novel, "Califia's Crusade," is now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books, Bookshop.org, and many other online platforms!
15 Jun 202016min
