Tadahiro Aizawa
Tadahiro Aizawa (相沢 忠洋, Aizawa Tadahiro, June 21, 1926 – May 22, 1989) was a nattō merchant who was the first to discover Japanese Paleolithic artifacts. Prior to Aizawa, the scholarly consensus had been that Japan was uninhabitable before the Jōmon period. Aizawa discovered stone axes at Iwajuku in September 1946. Aizawa embarrassed the professional archaeologists; he was only an amateur who passionately believed in pre-Jomon habitation.
Tadahiro Aizawa | |
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 Statue of Tadahiro Aizawa. | |
| Born | June 21, 1926 |
| Died | March 22, 1989 (aged 62) |
| Other names | 相沢 忠洋 |
| Occupation | merchant, an amateur archaeologist |
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 Photo of Aizawa |
References
- Keiji Imamura. Prehistoric Japan: new perspectives on insular East Asia p. 19.
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