Tadahiro Aizawa

Tadahiro Aizawa
Statue of 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(s)	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 Japanese archaeologist. Aizawa, an amateur stone tool collector who had been peddling nattō, discovered a microlith in Iwajuku, Gunma in 1946, which was recognized in 1949 as a Paleolithic site that had previously been thought not to exist in Japan.

References

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