Big Picture Science - The Wrong Stuff
By one estimate the
average American home has 300,000 objects. Yet our ancient ancestors had no
more than what they could carry with them. How did we go from being
self-sufficient primates to nonstop shoppers? We examine the evolutionary history
of stuff through the lens of archeology beginning with the ancestor who first
picked up a palm-sized rock and made it into a tool.
Guest:
- Chip Colwell - archeologist and former Curator of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, editor-in-chief of the digital magazine Sapiens, and author of “So Much Stuff: How Humans Discovered Tools, Invented Meaning, and Made More of Everything.”
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