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Shinichi Fujimura (藤村 新一 ''Fujimura Shin'ichi'', b. 4 May 1950) is a Japanese archaeologist who claimed he had found a large number of stone artifacts dating back to the Lower Paleolithic and Middle Paleolithic periods. These objects were later revealed to be forgeries. ==Success== Fujimura was born in Kami, Miyagi in 1950. After graduating from a high school in Sendai, he obtained a job in a manufacturing company. He became intrigued by archaeology when he was a child, finding shards of Jōmon pottery in the backyard of his house.〔''発掘捏造'', 毎日新聞旧石器遺跡取材班, 毎日新聞社, 2001.〕 In 1972 Fujimura began to study archaeology and to look for Paleolithic artifacts during his holidays. He became acquainted with some amateur and academic archaeologists in Sendai and they founded a NGO group, ''Sekki Bunka Kenkyukai'' in 1975. The group discovered and excavated many Paleolithic stone artifacts in Miyagi prefecture, such as at ''Zazaragi site'' in 1981, ''Nakamine C site'' in 1983 and ''Babadan A site'' in 1984. From a cross-dating investigation of the stratum these stone tools were estimated to be about 50,000 years old. He established his reputation as a leading amateur archaeologist because he found most of the artifacts on his own.〔 He even became known as the archaeologist with the "divine hands". After this success, he participated in 180 archaeological digs in northern Japan and almost always found artifacts, their age becoming increasingly older. Based on his discoveries the history of the Japanese Paleolithic period was extended to about 30,000 years. Most of the archaeologists did not question Fujimura's work and this discovery was written in the history textbooks. Later he gained a position as a deputy director at the private NGO group ''Tohoku Paleolithic Institute''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shinichi Fujimura」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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