Find Sites of the Pleistocene Man in Okinawa

Abstract

Fossil bones of the Pleistocene man have been found at the Yamashitacho cave in Naha city and the Minatogawa quarry near the southern coast of the main island of Okinawa. Charcoal fragments from these two sites yielded the radiocarbon date 32, 100±1, 000y.B.P. and 18, 250± 650y.B.P., respectively.