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A hypergeometric function in the sense of K.~Aomoto and I.~M.~Gel'fand is the pairing between twisted homology and twisted cohomology of the complements of hyperplanes in a complex projective space. In [\textit{K. Iwasaki} and \textit{M. Kita}, J. Math. Pures Appl., IX. Sér. 75, 69-84 (1996; Zbl 0853.58004)], the authors investigated twisted de~Rham cohomology groups of those spaces. In the paper under review, they investigate twisted simplicial homology groups and establish an exterior power structure on the twisted homology groups over a general ring \(R\) associated with hypergeometric functions. This result is a consequence of a more general theory, i.e., algebraic topology of the configuration spaces of \(n\)-points. Accordingly, algebraic topology of local systems on the configuration space of \(n\)-points is developed systematically, with emphasis on its simplicial aspects.