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Figure 8 . Compositional proportion of each descendant within the immigrant-style pottery holder group in cases of rapid diffusion of agriculture and pottery styles ( Simulation case number 215 , Run 7 ).
4 . Conclusion
In this paper , we generated new hypotheses about the process of population
explosion , agricultural diffusion , and pottery-style diffusion . Although these hypotheses are only hypotheses based on simulation results , they have falsifiability . Specifically , for the process of population explosion and agricultural diffusion , the hypothesis that , during polygamous marriage , agriculture spread rapidly among native people and was , in the early stages , performed mainly by native people could be verified by the discovery of human bone remains of peoples with native traits , along with artifacts verifying the existence of agriculture before and after the start of the Gusuku period . Additionally , for the pottery-style diffusion process , the hypothesis that during polygamous marriage , the high proportion of immigrant-style pottery holders need rapid agricultural diffusion and that the immigrant-style pottery had been held mostly by immigrants and had not been widely diffused among native people would be disproved by the discovery of the bone remains of peoples with native traits , along with immigrant-style pottery before and after the start of the Gusuku period .
Within Japanese anthropology and archeology , it is difficult to apply the ABSs developed in the famous pioneering studies on factors relating to the residential transition of the Anasazi tribe ( Dean et al ., 2000 ). As mentioned previously , that is because the required data , especially paleo-environmental records , are not widely available . However , in hypothesis generation such as in this study , the hypotheses based on simulation results with falsifiability would be able to facilitate the new discovery of anthropological and archeological evidence . This study reinforced our assertion that even if there are less data available , ABSs are able to
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