CONTENTS. 



Frontispiece. Shell Mounds of Omori, near Tokio Page. 



Preface iii. 



The Shell Mounds of Omori, Japan. Introductory 1. 



General character of the Onion Mounds 4. 



Special characteristics of the Omori Deposits. 5. 



Pottery . . 7. 



Ornaments. 10. 



Tablets 11. 



Implements of Horn aud Bone 1-'!. 



Implements of Stone 15. 



Remains of Animals. 16. 



Cannibalism 17. 



Flattened Tibia 19. 



A comparison between the Ancient and Modern Molluscan Fauna of 



Omori 23. 



Explanation of Plates , 3S. 



