archaeology, archaeologists and historians can unite against these people too, because they also drive us nuts. And so what i'm trying to do with the kind of next project that's in development is find a way to use this question of kinship as a way to build bridges. I want to thank my brother jake vincel writing the music for the show onathik my body, huliana castro,. for designing the logos for the podcast. Jo ford is the athenaeum coordinator and digal humanity specialist at v t libraries. And he serves as producer and sound engineer for the Podcast.
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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