If technology is artifact (which it is much more) of …complex human practices, then tool building is a practice that exists within human culture - thus there's some sense in asserting that "technology is a function of culture"

Within the historical elaboration in the designs of tool/artifact, there's what I'd call (to rearrange the above phrase) 'the technology of cultural navigation' - that is - to assert - the thing that culture is, which varies in all sorts of ways, and some of them are (to others and the people inside of them - 'them' the many contexts that 'culture' provides / is the background of) more …desirable, 'given the choice, are found to be preferred', etc, than others.

Seeing that comparison, making that choice, participating in those conversations - this is what I'm calling here 'navigation'

to be continued with earlier distinctions (damn the task of finding them!) I've brought to the initial 'technology is a function of culture' assertion I first recall articulating for myself (in a particular conversation that would be circa 2016.