The Archaeology of Innovation
Peoples & Things
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The Early Metal Daggers
The word scumorphism comes from the idea that as people develop new technologies, they are made to look like older technologies. It's an easy kind of visual this thing looks like that thing and fits nineteenth century ideas of ptyphology. Two things look alike, they must be the same type of thing. And then on top of that, we know that there similar ish in agein only a few hundred years, is upposed o thousands of years apart. So there might be a relationship between them. I don't deny there is a relationship. When you start making daggers, all of a sudden there's something going on, but it's not one to one
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