When is our first big question, and in what order? And so not the very first kind of major theoretical developments being about how we can figure out ouow the stuff that's coming out of the ground. That took a long time to figure out, and a lot of that was about materials. The story went from the archaeological record. So it was looking at am a whole series of excavations, tons and tons of excavations. This was all happening in, mostly in denmark,. Denmark and sen a big centres of early archaeology.
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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