Tadahiro Aizawa

Male, Deceased Person

1926 – 1989

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Who was Tadahiro Aizawa?

Tadahiro Aizawa 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.

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Born
1926
Died
May 22, 1989

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on July 23, 2013

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