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Japan’s oldest human skeleton found in Okinawa | ArchaeoFeed
Archaeologists discovered a partial human skeleton in a collapsed Shirahosaonetabaru cave on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, Japan, believed to be 27000 years old. According to the researchers the skeleton appears to have been intentionally placed in the cave, providing the first evidence of a funerary rite dating from the Palaeolithic period. Over the years of excavations