encounter_project in Japan. Spent the morning looking at Kasori shell middens before our session at the JAA while Enrico R. Crema rep'd us in the morning

Honored to be a part of such an exciting and important session!

These positions are still open and it is a chance to work with a very international African-European team on key themes in ancient agriculture, resilience and climate change. Have a look at them!! Please spread the info!

【拡散希望です】初代門司駅関連遺構群を助けて下さい。研究者としての私は無力ですが、学術界が国指定史跡相当と認めた世界遺産級の遺跡、門司の、北九州の、日本の、東アジアの、そして世界の宝、苦しみと喜びの歴史の体現が破壊されることを座視できません。 #門司駅　 youtu.be/xyo6Z0C78os?si…

If you are around Cambridge next week don't forget to come by! we're hosting a super nice symposium to discuss and compare the arrival of farming in Japan & the British Islands (and you can also register online).

We had a fantastic first day at the "Transition to agriculture at the edge of Eurasia" symposium!!! Amazing speakers covering the latest on the diffusion of farming in Japan and Britain! Join us online from more tomorrow!! encounterproject.info/announcements

So proud of my amazing colleagues of the encounter_project project! I learn so much from every single one of them! We had an amazing two days of discussion thanks to them and our wonderful guest speakers!

Latest paper from the Encounter Project featuring population studies on the impact of farming by Enrico R. Crema Simon Carrignon Shinya Shoda and Chris Stevens Cambridge Archaeology

🌱 What was the demographic response to the introduction of rice agriculture in prehistoric Japan? Find out in a new paper by the encounter_project project! 👉 Read about it: arch.cam.ac.uk/news/demograph… 📸 Modern paddy field - S. Shoda

New paper on PNASNews led by Simon Carrignon with Anne Kandler and Stephen Shennan, where we explore the impact of post-marital residence rules and resocialisation in cultural hitchhiking pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…