Human bone detection dating to 12,000 years in Japan

Okinawa Prefectural Museum on October 19 revealed that human and animal bones and radiocarbon dating tools have been discovered for 12,000 years in a cave in Nanjo City, Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan. .

Children's fossil teeth (top) and quartz tools (below) are found in the city of Nanjo, Okinawa Prefecture.

The museum official said it was the first time that the Stone Age human bones and tools were found at the site.

The museum's senior researcher, Shinji Yamasaki, said: 'These findings may be a clue to understanding the culture of a specific Stone Age man who ate and ate like that. Any time then '.

The tools found at Sakitari Cave are a 2cm long fangs, 3 stone tools, two sea shells and animal bones, including wild boars.

The museum also said that the excavation at Sakitari cave was conducted from 2009 to the present.

Sakitari Cave is located near the location of the 'Minatogawa Man' bones, the same prehistoric people believed to have lived in Okinawa about 18,000 years ago.

Okinawa Prefecture is also the place to discover the largest pieces of human bone from the Old Stone Age.

Of these, the bones of the relics of about 32,000 years ago have been found in Naha and are believed to be the oldest ever in the country.