In this lecture, we explore several examples of how “primitive” peoples have come up with extraordinary cultural responses to overcome the challenges of environmental instability and uncertainty. In so doing, we consider the possibility that Palaeolithic people developed technological responses to solving the problems that their communities would have faced, and thus used social innovation in ways that challenge how we think about our own modernity as exclusive to ourselves.

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