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 fr ...