An individual buried in a big, fancy tomb who's the product of close family incest. So incest was licet amongst individuals in society and this person was respected despite that. That's tuts an extreme example, and i just makes me crazy il but you see this ind over and over. There's the sense that, well, we've got science, now we can science it, and that will tell us real things about the past,. not this stuff that you make up from stone and pottery and bits of dirt.
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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