Ancient Arrowheads Returned to Misawa (Japan)

[ghp95134]

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan --
At the end of the Korean War, Airman 1st Class Alan R. Stephenson received an assignment to Misawa Air Base, Japan, as an electronics specialist on what is known today as Security Hill. It was here in 1954 that he discovered 13 obsidian tools, spear points, and arrowheads. At the time, he thought nothing of collecting them and kept them as souvenirs from his time in northern Japan. For the next 64 years, these artifacts sat in an old Kodak movie film box in his office, protected and preserved from time.

I forgot to mention the tools are obsidian and are reminiscent of the tools posted by the forum member in Russia.

I can’t copy the image from my iPhone. Misawa is located at the rop of the main island of Japan, not far from the northern island of Hokkaido. I’m in Japan right now in Tokyo (Japanese wife) and saw this story in a special edition of the Pacific Stars & Stripes newspaper.

Full article:
https://www.misawa.af.mil/News/Arti...arrowheads-returned-to-misawa-after-60-years/

– Guy

 

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[joshuaream]

Cool read. I am in Tokyo, and it’s hard to find any remnants of prehistoric cultures here in museums.

 

[ghp95134]

I’m currently at Tokyo Midtown — where are you? I’m staying at Hardy Barracks, just a 10 minute walk away, near Nogizaki Station.

— Guy

 

[tamrock]

No pics of the artifacts?

 

[joshuaream]

I’m currently at Tokyo Midtown — where are you? I’m staying at Hardy Barracks, just a 10 minute walk away, near Nogizaki Station.

— Guy

Walking distance. I am in Roponggi Hills. I live in Hong Kong but come here regularly because of our business.

This was my dinner about an hour ago.

 

[ghp95134]

Where’s the rest of that fish? I’m back again, the wife keeps me busy and I cannot use her wi-fi, I have to use Midtown’s when I get the chance.

—Guy

 

[ghp95134]

Pics are linked in the article, you have to scroll through the images. I don’t know how to copy/paste images on an iPhone.

—Guy

 

[joshuaream]

Where’s the rest of that fish? I’m back again, the wife keeps me busy and I cannot use her wi-fi, I have to use Midtown’s when I get the chance.

—Guy

That’s what I asked. You scrape the ribs with a clam shell.

 

[Kantuckkeean]

That’s what I asked. You scrape the ribs with a clam shell.

Interesting. A friend of mine who hunted for artifacts long before I started showed me a sinkhole/cave on a farm that his family had sold, and where he’d played as a boy. He’d found several points and tools there. While inside, he found an intact half of a large, freshwater mussel shell that seemed out of place. Later, he took it to the local expert who showed him how one side of the convex surface was smoothed down from use, likely as a spoon of sorts. He showed it to me again, and there was a slight indent in the concave surface for the thumb and the side that rested in your palm was worn smooth. I always imagined that it would have been used with a turtle shell bowl for soup, but perhaps it was used for scraping flesh from bones as well.

Kindest regards,
Kantuck

 

[ghp95134]

Image of Points

I've finally returned to the States and can use a **real** computer vice iPhone. Here is the photo of the tools.

--Guy