Abstract
This paper criticises altitudes to the history of technology exemplified by the Routledge <em>Encyclopaedia of the History of Technology</em> (1990), which displays ignorance of the nature and achievements of archaeology, compounded by failure to distinguish between the materials and methods of archaeology and history. The <em>Encyclopaedia’s</em> emphasis on individual inventions leads to linearity and diffusionism, while questions of gender are hardly addressed.
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