links for 2007-04-13

• Butterflies and Wheels: Notes Archive Ophelia Benson about Japanese history and why truth matters. Japanese children are learning Japan was a bit mean to other countries in the Second World War, doing things like forcing them to use Japanese names for places. (tags: military+historyhistoryethicspolitics)

• Orbis Quintus » agriculture in Americas pushed back to 5,300 BC Badger reports on a recent find of maize in Mexico. To put that into a British context, the tranistion to agriculture here is currently dated to 4500 – 4000 BC. (tags: archaeologyarchaeogastronomyneolithicprehistoricpalaeoindian)