Harumi Fujita (b. 1954, pictured center) is a Japanese archaeologist who specializes in the paleolit
Harumi Fujita (b. 1954, pictured center) is a Japanese archaeologist who specializes in the paleolithic period of Baja California regions of MexicoFujita has identified and documented over 500 sites in the Baja Sur region, and her research has changed the chronology of prehistoric activity on several occasions. In 1996, she worked in the Babisuri Shelter site on the Island of Espíritu Santo, were she discovered artifacts made from shell in one of the lower levels of the site. Radiocarbon dating showed that the shell dates between 36,000 to 40,000 years ago, indicating that human occupation of the region occurred thousands of years earlier than previously estimated. In 2011 she discovered a number of C-Shaped fishhooks on the same site. Fourteen of these hooks definitively dated to the end of the Pleistocene (approx. 11,000 years ago), making them among the oldest fishing hooks known to exist and confirming that fishing cultures had emerged in North America before the Holocene period.Harumi Fujita is currently a researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) in Mexico. -- source link
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