In rom an cormall, people have major shifts in tentlemen architecture. They go from big, open settlements to suddenly there are enclosed manor farms. We see changing seranic styles and the emergence of new forms of food preparation. I'm at a dietary level, i we see very complicated social relationships developing that remains stable over 600 years.
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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