Japan's Oldest Human Remains Unearthed

Humans are believed to have begun living in Japan from the Paleolithic period, which is well over 10,000 years ago. While items have been found at archaeological sites from that period, fossilized human bones were hard to find. Yet in the past few years, human remains from the Paleolithic period have been found at a site in Ishigaki Island, Okinawa Prefecture. It turns out that the soil held the key to their preservation. The bones reveal new things about Paleolithic humans and how they lived.