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The Archaeology of Innovation

Peoples & Things

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What's the Point of Conservatism and Resistance to Innovation?

All our empirical ways to study it are themselves socially historically contingent. And so we have to start from the premise at everything we use. Well, im cookinga i won't be able to cook properly. So that's an efficient act for me. And those social practices are our efficiencies, whatever they are. I want to talk to you a bit about conservatism and resistance to innovation. Can you tell us more about this iron age cornwall a a communities that i mentioned earlier?

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