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and are being steadily added to by new explorations in prehistoric 

 mounds and shell heaps. They date all from the Neolithic period, 

 nothing earlier having thus far been discovered in eastern Asia ; and 

 they show both an old diversity, as well as more or less relation to the 

 Aino and to the Japanese. 



Fic. 78. — Japanese child. 



In Korea special facilities were obtained for visiting the museum 

 at Seoul, which was found unexpectedly rich in Korean and Tur- 

 kestan antiquities. The people represent quite a distinct subtype of 

 the yellow-brown stem from that of the Japanese as well as that of 

 the Chinese ; they are more like the western Siberian or southeastern 

 Russian Tatars. 



One of the most interesting features in Korea are the mound burials 

 of the people. These mounds are all hemispherical, in contradistinc- 



