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The Archaeology of Innovation

Peoples & Things

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A Look at the Evolution of Technology Over Time

Theories of technological change have been in archaeology for 200 years. They are often seen as dehumanized, but there is a kind of social technology that's emerging from the world of french theory. And so you still have conversations with people where they talk about or less sophisticated people, or more or less developed cultures. It's very much in the popular imaginationand all that is out of that nineteenth century, evolutionary anthropology, archaeology,. social theory, mass that birst a bunch of our disciplines.

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