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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '2000-11-06T02:36:58'
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title: Japan claimed to have the
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Japan claimed to have the oldest stoneware ever found, but that claim is now [in serious doubt as the laeading researcher](http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1008000/1008051.stm) was caught red-handed burying pottery he later "discovered". He has confessed to faking most of his work, which covers a surprising amount of the total paleolithic research done in Japan.