Valley of Gangala

This guide to Valley of Gangala in Okinawa centers on Sakitari Cave, where archaeologists in twenty twelve unearthed a fishhook ground from a sea snail shell roughly twenty three thousand years ago. It follows what that discovery meant to researcher Masaki Fujita and others who had assumed serious open-water fishing came much later, and pictures the person who shaped it, testing and breaking shells beside a grinding stone and a fire pit of frog, bird, eel and crab bones. Walk the collapsed cavern's floor toward the chamber where that patient work happened.