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| | Ancient dwellings found in Miyagi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | TAGAJO, Miyagi - The remains of 600,000 year old human dwellings - believed to be the oldest of their kind ever found in the nation and one of the oldest in the world, have been found in Miyagi Prefecture, archaeologists said Monday. |
 | | The ruins of the residences, if it is confirmed, predates the nation's oldest known residential remains found in February this year in Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, by some 100,000 years, archaeologists announced. |
 | | The remains in question were excavated in Kamitakamori, Miyagi Prefecture, by a joint team of Tohoku Fukushi University experts and a local archaeological institute in Tagajo. |
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