Omori Mounds
(Tokyo on Sep.14)
The photograph shows a monument at Omori Station in Ota Ward, Tokyo. There's an inscription,"The cradle of Japanese archeology" on it.
In June, 1877 Dr. Edward Sylvester Morse (American, 1838-1925) who had visited Japan discovered white sediment of shells on the cliff around Omori Station from the window of a train from Yokohama to Shinbashi.
The doctor had scientific excavation surveys from September in the same year for the first time in the Japanese archeological history and the sediment was revealed to be shell mounds of the late Jomon period (From 10,000 years ago to three century B.C.)
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