Minatogawa man
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Jump to navigationJump to searchMinatogawa man is the name given to a series of fossilized human skeletons discovered by Ôyama Seiho in Gushikawa, Okinawa in the late 1960s. At roughly 18,000 years old, Minatogawa man is the oldest set of human remains ever found anywhere in the Japanese archipelago.
Some four to nine well-preserved bodies were found at the site. While the volcanic soil of mainland Japan is rather acidic, making it rather difficult for certain kinds of remains to survive, such remains were able to survive much more easily in the limestone geology of Okinawa.
References
- Plaques at Ôyama Seiho's birthplace, Nakagusuku Village, Okinawa.[1]
