[Rockhounds] Pleistocene 'human' fossils from Japan aren't what we thought

[Paul]

20,000-year-old 'human' fossils from Japan aren't what we thought
By Tom Metcalfe LiveScience, January 15, 2025
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/20-000-year-old-human-fossils-from-japan-arent-what-we-thought

 'Bear bones': Japan's 20,000-year-old 'Ushikawa man' fossils found in 1950s are not of a human at all, FP Staff, First post, January 17, 2025,
https://www.firstpost.com/world/bear-bones-japans-20000-year-old-ushikawa-man-fossils-found-in-1950s-are-not-of-a-human-at-all-13853570.html

Japan’s oldest human fossils aren’t human at all, new study reveals
by Brian Foster, Glass Almanac, April 4, 2025 https://glassalmanac.com/japans-oldest-human-fossils-arent-human-at-all-new-study-reveals/

The pay-walled paper is at:

諏訪元, 佐宗亜衣子, 佐々木智彦, 中村凱, 遠藤秀紀 and 
松浦秀治, 2024. 「牛川人骨」 の部位・
動物種別の特定と学史略考. (Suwa Hajime, Saso Aiko, 
Sasaki Tomohiko, Nakamura Kai, Endo Hideki and Matsuura 
Shuji, 2024. Identification of the body part and animal species 
of the "Ushikawa human bones" and a brief review of the 
academic history. 2024) Anthropological Science (Japanese 
Series), 132(2), pp.71-85.
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/asj/132/2/132_240917/_article/-char/ja/

 The same mistake happened in Louisiana.

Arata, A.A. and Harmann, G.L., 1966. Fossil Ursus Reported 
as Early Man in Louisiana. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology, 4(2).
https://journals.tulane.edu/tsgp/article/view/418

Yours,

Paul H.