My only real point here was that if we’re going to stake the claim that “innovation is human nature”, we have to consider a broader scope of the word to include forms of innovation that are mostly invisible to archaeologists - the problem then being that we are making completely unsupported claims to do so.
Mmm… But there is archaeological evidence for a bunch of those… Cooking, art, animal handling. And art also provides evidence about other customs in some cases…
All those things you mentions have been around since prior to the neolithic revolutions… Plus a whole bunch of tool making.
My only real point here was that if we’re going to stake the claim that “innovation is human nature”, we have to consider a broader scope of the word to include forms of innovation that are mostly invisible to archaeologists - the problem then being that we are making completely unsupported claims to do so.
Mmm… But there is archaeological evidence for a bunch of those… Cooking, art, animal handling. And art also provides evidence about other customs in some cases…