
Published online:
17 November 2016
Published in print:
30 November 2013
Online ISBN:
9780824870980
Print ISBN:
9780824837129
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Sites in the Northern Ryukyus and the Amami Islands Sites in the Northern Ryukyus and the Amami Islands
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Fossil Finds Fossil Finds
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Relations to Early Continental Asians and Japanese Populations Relations to Early Continental Asians and Japanese Populations
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Comparison of Modern Ryukyu Islanders to Other Modern Populations Comparison of Modern Ryukyu Islanders to Other Modern Populations
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Cite
Pearson, Richard, 'Pleistocene Inhabitants', Ancient Ryukyu: An Archaeological Study of Island Communities (Honolulu, HI , 2013; online edn, Hawai'i Scholarship Online, 17 Nov. 2016), https://doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824837129.003.0003, accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter describes the earliest archaeological findings of human groups—the Pleistocene fossils—from the Ryukyu Islands. These fossils range in date from 32,000 to 16,000 years ago. From 23,000 to 18,000 BP, at the height of the Wurm Glaciation, sea level was lower by about 140 m; consequently, a large land mass was available for habitation by people whose remains were found in Minatogawa and other sites. Late Pleistocene Homo sapiens had to cross water to reach the few large islands of the Ryukyus in the Late Pleistocene. Between the Late Pleistocene discoveries and subsequent Holocene archaeological sites there is a gap of about 8,000 to 9,000 years.
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