This isn’t particularly new or exciting, but I recently stumbled across this fascinating article from Jared Diamond on Japan’s enthnographic history.
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He’s clearly missing the most obvious hypothesis:
Japan was originally settled by a human like species from space who gathered both jomon and yayoi peoples together to teach them their superior language and culture.Report