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