Shinichi Fujimura, an archaeologist who admitted falsifying two findings of Paleolithic stone tools in northern Japan, has denied rumors that more dig finds he was involved in were also fakes.
"No other fakes than the two," Fujimura, 50, former deputy director of the Tohoku Paleolithic Institute in the city of Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, said Monday.
Fujimura met the press for the first time after he publicly admitted Nov. 5 that he had fabricated the findings at the Kamitakamori ruins in Miyagi Prefecture and the Soshin-Fudozaka site in Hokkaido.
The admission prompted textbook publishers to correct their history texts on Paleolithic stone tools.