archaeologist found evidence of a subsistence practices, what people are eating and stone tool technology. He excavated in a series of caves a and came up with some patterns in the material. And he said that was about three thousand years ago. But this is in the sixties, so the datings all a bit messier. We've got better methods now for that.
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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