Archaeologist admits burying 'oldest' stoneware pieces

SENDAI, Japan - Shinichi Fujimura (R), 50, a senior director at the Tohoku Paleolithic Institute, admits at a news conference held at the Miyagi prefetural government building in Sendai on Nov. 5 that he fabricated the discovery in the prefecture of stoneware at first believed to be more than 600,000 years old by burying the objects himself.

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