Tadahiro Aizawa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Tadahiro Aizawa

First to discover pre Jōmon period artifacts

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Haneda, Tokyo, Japan

Date of Death: 22-May-1989

Profession: archaeologist, anthropologist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Tadahiro Aizawa

  • Tadahiro Aizawa (?? ??, Aizawa Tadahiro, June 21, 1926 – May 22, 1989) was a natto merchant who was the first to discover Japanese Paleolithic artifacts.
  • Prior to Aizawa, the scholarly consensus had been that Japan was uninhabitable before the Jomon 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.

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