Periodic Reporting for period 3 - ENCOUNTER (Demography, Cultural change, and the Diffusion of Rice and Millet during the Jomon-Yayoi transition in prehistoric Japan)

Human history is punctuated by episodes of large-scale diffusion of new ideas and people that have often led to era-defining transitions of past societies. Investigating what processes have determined these events, how people have reacted to these, and what long-term...