12,000-year-old human bones, tools found in Okinawa

12,000-year-old human bones, tools found in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Shinji Yamasaki, senior researcher of the Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, speaks on Oct. 19, 2012, near the site in the Sakitari Cave in Nanjo, Okinawa Prefecture, where the museum discovered human and animal bones as well as stone tools made of quartz, which are estimated to be about 12,000 years old.

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