Minatogawa Man
Hombre de Minatogawa
- Date
- 1970 · confidence high
- Place
- Minatogawa, Okinawa, Japan
- Credited to
- Seiho Ōyama
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Fossil remains of Homo sapiens found in a cave in Okinawa, dated between 20,000 and 22,000 years ago, among the oldest human skeletons discovered in Japan.
What it led to
- extended the oldest known record of modern humans in the Japanese archipelago
- allowed comparison of Okinawa's prehistoric population with other Late Pleistocene groups in Asia
- fueled debate over the routes of human settlement into Japan