The oldest human fossils on Japan's mainland were found in a limestone quarry near Hamakita, 40 km east of Ushikawa.
Researchers Stunned After Discovering 20,000-Year-Old Fossil Belonged to a Bear, Mistook It to Be of a Human Initially The 20 ...
Fossils once thought to represent the earliest known human remains from the country turn out to be from another animal.
The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...
NAGOYA, JAPAN—The Mainichi reports that the Middle Pleistocene fossils known as “Ushikawa Man,” once suggested to be the oldest known human remains in Japan, are actually bear bones.
A study has found that what scientists had thought were the oldest human fossils found in Japan are the bones of a brown bear. Once known as the Ushikawa man, the fossils were found in the city of ...
The humerus of a modern human, left, that of the "Ushikawa man" within the box and those from a bear (the three on the right) are seen in a comparative image provided by the department of human ...
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A study has found that what scientists had thought were the oldest human fossils found in Japan are the bones of a brown bear. Once known as the Ushikawa man, the fossils were found in the city of ...