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Ancient human bone found in Ishigaki cave [ 24,000 years old ]
Japan Update ^
| Friday, December 2, 2011
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Posted on 12/13/2011 2:59:32 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists are ecstatic as they study a 24,000-year-old human bone fragment that's been discovered on Ishigaki Island in southern Okinawa Prefecture.
The Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum is among those poring over the bone piece found in the Shirahosaonetabaru cave. Officials believe the bone fragment is part of a rib. The bone's already been tested using direct dating, and scientists now say the latest bone discovery is 4,000 years older than any other bone found in Japan.
The testing, using radiocarbon dating, is being supervised by archaeologists at the University of Tokyo to determine the age of the piece from the Paleolithic Period which ran from 2 million B.C. to 10,000 B.C. Being studied are some 300 pieces of human bone, as well as animal bones, found in the cave. One piece was identified as being from a wild boar.
The cave is located in the construction site for a new Ishigaki Airport. |
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To: dog breath
The ancestors of most Japanese apparently came from the Korean peninsula at some pointWhat evidence is there for that assertion?
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12/13/2011 11:19:48 PM PST
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DNA.2012
To: DNA.2012; dog breath
It’s ironic that you should ask that question given your freepname.... ;-)
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12/14/2011 3:09:11 AM PST
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Natufian
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To: DNA.2012
There is some DNA evidence and linguistic evidence showing a connection to southern Korea. There was intermingling with the people already in the Islands so it is untrue to say that they are genetically Korean. I think there are two haploid groups unique to Japan actually a heritage from the earlier peoples.
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