Abstract
The concept of waste as an explanation for cultural elaboration was presented as an effort to demonstrate the power of evolutionary theory in archaeology. The notion itself, however, was originally conceived while teaching the prehistory of eastern North America. I review the historical roots of the idea and relate the waste notion to “competing” hypotheses appearing under the rubric of evolutionary theory.
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