Earliest N. Americans may have started life in Hokkaido, Sakhalin, Kurils 北米に最初に住み着いた人は北海道出身かも 日米チームが新仮説、出土品に共通点を発見
A globe shows an area stretching from Hokkaido and other parts of the Japanese islands, bottom left, to part of mainland North America, right. (The Asahi Shimbun file photo)
The first Homo sapiens to arrive in the Americas may have originated in a region covering today’s Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the Kuril islands, according to a new theory by a group of Japanese and U.S. researchers.
The anthropologists said finds from archaeological sites left by some of the earliest mo...
