iam not an, actually, anastologist for the past, for the most part. There were moments when i was reading about like, these groups in cornwall and stuff, and i was lik, mantis, it sounds all right,. But i think you're yer. Archaeologists use our physical remains, including tools, as evidence for all kinds of things. It's often implicit, i'mt a change isno, goes right back to the roots of the discipline. How do we understand the past? How do we take this pile of stuff?
Catherine Frieman, an associate professor of European Archaeology at the School of Archaeology, talks about her recent book, An Archaeology of Innovation: Approaching Social and Technological Change in Human Society, with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. Her book offers a long-term perspective on innovation that only archaeology can offer and draws on case studies from across human history, from our earliest hominin ancestors to the present. The book makes several different arguments, but one of them is that our present narrow focus on pushing the adoption of technical innovations—especially so called “disruptive innovations”—ignores the complex social, technological, and environmental systems that undergirds successful societies.
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