Long before April 1 became a day of harmless pranks, these frauds famously rocked economies, prompted mass panic, and fooled millions
may not know it was the epicenter of a recent, bold scientific hoax. Beginning in the 1970s, amateur archaeologist Shinichi Fujimura planted genuine ancient artifacts across Miyagi at what he claimed were almost 200 Paleolithic sites up to 500,000 years old.
This rewrote the history of Japan, which until then was believed to be inhabited for only 30,000 years. In fact, many of the artifacts were actually from Japan’sShinichi’s amazing “finds” were widely celebrated. They even earned him the nickname “God’s hands.” But this faux deity crashed to earth in 2000 when Japanese media caught him burying stoneware, collected from a different location, at a Miyagi excavation site.’s Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology.
“[There was a] lack of a specific archaeological reason why such finds were improbable,” says Hudson, who authored a study on this fraud. “Perhaps the best hoaxes are like that? If it's something too unusual, then people are suspicious. If they start with the premise that, ‘Well, this might be true,’ then acceptance is easier.”
is an Australian journalist and photographer who shuttles between Ireland, Thailand, and Western Australia.
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