World's oldest fishing hook found in cave on Okinawa island

A 23,000-year-old fishing hook, the world’s oldest, was excavated from a cave here, a discovery that counters the theory that early Stone Age humans could not survive for long on Japan’s southernmost islands, researchers said.

The Asahi Shimbun

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