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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The discovery that the Ushikawa fossils are not human means the oldest human fossils found on the Japanese mainland are from a limestone quarry near the Japanese city of Hamakita, about 25 miles ...

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A study has found that what scientists thought were the oldest human fossils found in Japan are the bones of a brown bear. Image: Monument to Ushikawa man. Credits: Public Domain, via Wikimedia ...

Now, a newly discovered human fossil found in Northern Israel suggests that ... at least 177,000 years for the fossil—making it the oldest member of the Homo sapiens clade found outside Africa.” ...

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Scientists have described about 250,000 different fossil species, yet that is a small fraction of those that lived in the past. The oldest fossils ... fossils may be found as the result of an ...

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, they are ...