Cob: Re: Aizu Gig

[Darel Henman]

No need for you to be sorry.  Some people in remote local areas such as
Fukushima, have a tendency to ignore historical evidence to suit their
own preconceptions.  So it seems that the museum folk desperately need
the service of a  expert help them straighten their mistake out, or as
an alternative go back to school and take local history.  Of course they
may want tourists to come and get carried away in marketing.   I've seen
this done in person by a tour guide giving out mis-information about a
historic dig.

They were not even farmers in that period.  They may have had some kind
of local wild grain collected in unfired clay pottery.  But it was not
rice as we know it.

Fact, last year a major scandal occurred when one of the main
archeological diggers in Japan had been caught planting artifices at
sites, rather than really digging them up.  People in the field wondered
how he'd been so lucky in his digs.........

Darel

Carl Vilbrandt wrote:
> 
> Sorry I was at the Fukushima museum last year and what I saw labeled in
> english was the photos of a archaeologic dig in the Aizu valley and
> remains of a rice storage jar /w rice.... They were all clearly labeled
> 4000 years old.....
> Carl