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[[File:Omori.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Stone marker at the site of the Ômori shellmound]]
*''Excavated: [[1877]], [[Edward Sylvester Morse]]''
*''Japanese'': 大森貝塚 ''(Oomori kaizuka)''
The Ômori shellmound, located in [[Tokyo]] and excavated by [[Edward Sylvester Morse]] in [[1877]], represented a significant contribution to the emergence and early development of the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology in Japan, and was among the first studies of prehistoric Japanese culture.
Morse noticed the mound as he rode the train from [[Yokohama]] to [[Shinbashi]] in June 1877, and returned to the site shortly afterwards to excavate it. Pottery shards, stone tools, human and other bones, and shells found in the mound revealed much about prehistoric Japan. Morse's findings, published in [[1879]], were among the first modern scholarly work on prehistoric Japan to be published in either English or Japanese.
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==References==
*Plaques on-site.
==External Links==
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=EeQqAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Shell Mounds of Omori], by Edward Sylvester Morse, University of Tokyo, 1879, on Google Books.
*[https://www.google.com/maps/place/%E5%A4%A7%E6%A3%AE%E8%B2%9D%E5%A1%9A%E9%81%BA%E8%B7%A1%E5%BA%AD%E5%9C%92/@35.593245,139.73029,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x6018602c9b8eee3f:0x9ffc19ed632f0a65 Ômori shellmound on Google Maps]
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Jomon Period]]
[[Category:Locations]]
*''Excavated: [[1877]], [[Edward Sylvester Morse]]''
*''Japanese'': 大森貝塚 ''(Oomori kaizuka)''
The Ômori shellmound, located in [[Tokyo]] and excavated by [[Edward Sylvester Morse]] in [[1877]], represented a significant contribution to the emergence and early development of the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology in Japan, and was among the first studies of prehistoric Japanese culture.
Morse noticed the mound as he rode the train from [[Yokohama]] to [[Shinbashi]] in June 1877, and returned to the site shortly afterwards to excavate it. Pottery shards, stone tools, human and other bones, and shells found in the mound revealed much about prehistoric Japan. Morse's findings, published in [[1879]], were among the first modern scholarly work on prehistoric Japan to be published in either English or Japanese.
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==References==
*Plaques on-site.
==External Links==
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=EeQqAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Shell Mounds of Omori], by Edward Sylvester Morse, University of Tokyo, 1879, on Google Books.
*[https://www.google.com/maps/place/%E5%A4%A7%E6%A3%AE%E8%B2%9D%E5%A1%9A%E9%81%BA%E8%B7%A1%E5%BA%AD%E5%9C%92/@35.593245,139.73029,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x6018602c9b8eee3f:0x9ffc19ed632f0a65 Ômori shellmound on Google Maps]
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Jomon Period]]
[[Category:Locations]]