Tadahiro Aizawa

Tadahiro Aizawa
Born (1926-06-21)June 21, 1926
 Japan
Died March 22, 1989(1989-03-22) (aged 62)
Other names 相沢 忠洋
Occupation merchant, an amateur archaeologist
External image
Photo of 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.

References

  • Keiji Imamura. Prehistoric Japan: new perspectives on insular East Asia p. 19.
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