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| | Dig yields trace of 500,000-year-old house (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The archaeologists have found several pits, believed to be bases for pillars of two buildings, and a group of buried stone tools at the Ogasaka site in Chichibu, the Saitama Prefectural Board of Education said Monday. |
 | | The habitat in Saitama is thought to have been built by primitive man, or homo erectus, who are believed to have emerged 1.6 million years ago, they said. |
 | | A MAN points to a hole Monday that is believed to have housed a pillar for a dwelling some 500,000 years ago, at the Ogasaka archaeological site in Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture. |
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