Tadahiro Aizawa
First to discover pre Jōmon period artifacts
About Tadahiro Aizawa
Lived 1926 – 1989 (aged 62). Tadahiro Aizawa was a Japanese anthropologist and archaeologist.
was a Japanese archaeologist. Aizawa, an amateur stone tool collector who had been peddling , 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.
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Who was Tadahiro Aizawa?
First to discover pre Jōmon period artifacts
When was Tadahiro Aizawa born?
Tadahiro Aizawa was born on 21 June 1926 in Haneda.
When did Tadahiro Aizawa die?
Tadahiro Aizawa died on 22 May 1989 in Kiryu Kosei General Hospital.
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Tadahiro Aizawa was an anthropologist and archaeologist.
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Tadahiro Aizawa was Japanese.
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