The last tasmanian was intended to be a tool of empowerment and teaching. It was the first time the white australian public really saw the story of the t asmanian genecide. And he spent a long time, after the film came out, n after there was quite a lot of controversy about it,. I'm but he im he kept trying to defend himself, and he clearly didn't realize that that's what he'd done... But unfortunately for archaeology, i his work has gotten picked up. We don't believe what he said, and actually have a better understanding of the materials than restid based on a very small excavation units.
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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