archaeology actually doing what you wanted to do. We excavated one of these sights in 20 19, my team and i, and it was sitting. And then we realized that the field system was actually iron age. They'd taken that kind of big field system, probably for moving sheep or and they built their house,. The enclosure is now flat and invisible, wetho, ok.
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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