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S.MITFISiiXIAX EXI'LOKATIONS, I92O 



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and are being steadily added to l)v 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 

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

 Aino and to the Japanese. 



Fk;. 78. — Japanese chilrl. 



In Korea s])ccial facilities were obtained for visiting the mnsiuni 

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

 kestan antif|uities. The people represent (|uite a distincl subt\pe of 

 the yellow-brown stem from that of the )a])ane>e as well as that of 

 the Chinese; they are more like the western ."^ibrrian or southeastern 

 Russian Tatars. 



( )ne of the m<»st interesting IcaHuis in Korea .in- the mound burials 

 of the peiiplc. 'These mounds are all hemibpherital, in contradistinc- 



