Japanese Paleolithic Hoax
The story of an amateur archaeologist named Fujimura Shin'ichi being caught on camera putting phony relics at an archaeological site surfaced early on November 5, 2000. The Kami Takamori site, which predates sites in Europe and Africa, the continent that gave rise to civilization, was at the time thought to be the oldest Early Paleolithic site on Earth.
They would have changed the course of human history if the objects they had contained had been shown to be true. This wasn't the case, though, and once video of Fujimura's actions spread, suspicion was raised at every dig site he was associated with in Japan.
According to speculation, Fujimura hid more than 180 relics between 1976 and 2000; as a result, it was commonly believed that humans first appeared in Japan more than 500,000 years ago. The situation is complicated by Fujimura's fraud, which has a significant negative impact on Japanese archaeology. Although there is evidence that humans existed in China and that land bridges connected the island of Japan at least twice in the previous 700,000 years, there is currently no proof that humans existed in Paleolithic Japan.
