The oldest human fossils on Japan's mainland were found in a limestone quarry near Hamakita, 40 km east of Ushikawa.

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In the 1950s, when they were discovered, the Ushikawa fossils were identified as parts of a human humerus (upper arm bone) and femur (leg bone), believed to be over 20,000 years old ...

According to a study, what scientists thought were the oldest human fossils found in Japan are actually the bones of a brown bear.

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 ...

What were until now thought to be the oldest human fossils found in Japan, known as the "Ushikawa man," are actually the bones of a bear, re･･･ ...

The Mainichi reports that the Middle Pleistocene fossils known as “Ushikawa Man,” once suggested to be the oldest known human ...

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 ...