David Campbell was kind enough to alert me to a BBC report about 500,000
year old post holes in Japan. It took a while to verify this report but it
has been reported widely in Japanese Newspapers. One person translated part
of an article from a major Japanese newspaper for me. He wrote:
"My translation is not very good, but this is summary from what Yomiuri
Shimbun (one of the major news paper in Japan) wrote."
'Saitama Educational Association reported that on Feb 21, they found 10
holes which seem to be post holes and 30 stone implements from Ogasaka
Ruins. Judging from the stratums, they were made a half-million years ago.
The post holes are making 2 circles, 5 holes per one circle.'"
end translation
To the best of my knowledge, this is the earliest evidence of human
habitation in Japan.
"The oldest Palaeolithic site in Japan is still uncertain, but there are
several sites that have been excavated below deep stratified volcanic soils
in Miyagi prefecture and Tokyo. These sites are dated to more than one
hundred thousand years BP by a variety of phsycial dating methods,
especially tephra chronology. The origin of the people who came to live in
Japan is still under discussion." ~ Akira Matsui, "Wetland Sites in Japan",
in Bryon Coles, The Wetland Revolution in Prehistory, (Exeter: The
Prehistoric Society, 1992), p. 5-14, p 5
It is also one of the earlier evidences of hut building. There is the hut
at Terra Amata France which dates to 400,000 years ago, and the huts at
Bilzingslbeben which date to 400,000 years ago. Only one possible evidence
of hut construction is older than this that I am aware of and that is the
nearly 2 myr old hut discovered by Mary Leakey at DK site. (Richard Leakey,
"Recent Fossil finds From East Africa," in J.R. Durant ed. Human Origins,
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989) p 60-61)
God told man to fill the earth. Homo erectus did just that.
glenn
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