Japan's oldest partial human skeleton found in Okinawa

A partial human skeleton, thought to be the country's oldest dating from around 27,000 years ago, has been found in a collapsed cave in Okinawa, southern Japan, a local museum said Friday.(Okinawa Prefecture Archeological Center)The almost complete skeleton, dating from the Old Stone Age, appears to have been intentionally placed in the cave, providing evidence for the first time of a funerary rite during that period, according to the Okinawa Prefecture Archeological Center.Previously, the oldest human bones discovered in Japan, dating from around 22,000 years ago, were found in the souther…READ FULL ARTICLE