This fortnight we’re joined by Matt Betts, who argues that reports of culture-history’s death may have been premature. So tonight we’ve got paradigms and epi-paradigms, systematics, evolutionary theory, and Matt even explains why archaeological theory is like a Chinese buffet. It’s like if your grad school culture history class was not only fun, but edgy. So come be theoretically subversive and tune in.

Show Notes:

Betts, Matthew W, and M Gabriel Hrynick. 2021. The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast. University of Toronto Press.
Lyman, R. Lee, Michael J. O'Brien, and Robert C. Dunnell. 1997. The Rise and Fall of Culture History. Plenum Press

Hit Piece

Low, Kayla. 2026. Ceramics of the fisheries: an analysis of Breton coarse earthenwares in the North Atlantic from the 16th to the 19th centuries. MA Thesis, Department of Archaeology, Memorial University of Newfoundland https://memorial.scholaris.ca/items/e88a78ed-5c64-4927-b337-d31b8788b082
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Credits

Sponsors: APANB, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Producers: Emanuel Akel (Audio Engineer); Cody Pai (Video/Socials)

Music Credits: Intro/Outro (Remix): Emanuel Akel, Original Title/Hit Pieces: Justin Hoenke

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