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Appropriating innovations : entangled knowledge in Eurasia, 5000-1500 BCE /

The question of how to conceptualize the role of technological innovations is of crucial importance for understanding the mechanisms and rhythms of long-term cultural change in prehistoric and early historic societies. The changes that have come about have often been modelled as gradual and linear,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Maran, Joseph (Editor ), Stockhammer, Philipp (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Haverton, PA : Oxbow Books, 2017.
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  • Innovation minus modernity : revisiting some relations of technical and social change / Cornelius Schubert
  • From counting to writing : the innovative potential of bookkeeping in Uruk period Mesopotamia / Kristina Sauer
  • Uruk, pastoralism and secondary products : was it a revolution? a view from the Anatolian highlands / Maria Bianca D'Anna and Giulio Palumbi
  • The "green revolution" in prehistory : late Neolithic agricultural innovations as a technological system / Maria Ivanova
  • The spread of productive and technological innovations in Europe and Near East : an integrated zooarchaeological perspective on secondary animal products and bronze utilitarian metallurgy / Haskel J. Greenfield
  • Early wagons in Eurasia : disentangling an enigmatic innovation / Stefan Burmeister
  • Contextualising innovation : cattle owners and wagon drivers in the North Caucasus and beyond / Sabine Reinhold, Julia Gresky, Natalia Berezina, Anatoly R. Kantorovich, Corina Knipper, Vladimir E. Maslov, Vladimira G. Petrenko, Kurt W. Alt and Andrey B. Belinsky
  • Innovation, interaction and society in Europe in the 4th millennium BCE : the "traction complex" as innovation and "technology cluster" / Maleen Leppek
  • Wheels of change : the polysemous nature of early wheeled vehicles in 3rd millennium BCE central and northwest European societies / Joseph Maran
  • Appropriating draught cattle technology in southern Scandinavia : roles, context and consequences / Niels N. Johannsen
  • Key techniques in the production of metals in the 6th and 5th millennia : prerequisites, preconditions and consequences / Svend Hansen
  • The diffusion of know-how within spheres of interaction : modelling prehistoric innovation processes between South-West Asia and Central Europe in the 5th and 4th millennia BC / Florian Klimscha
  • A comparative angle on metallurgical innovations in South-Western Asia : what came first? / Barbara Helwing
  • The role of metallurgy in different types of early hierarchical society in Mesopotamia and Eastern Anatolia / Marcella Frangipane
  • The use of bronze objects in the 3rd millennium BC : a survey between Atlantic and Indus / Lorenz Rahmstorf
  • Appropriation of tin-bronze technology : a regional study of the history of metallurgy in early Bronze Age southern Mesopotamia / Ulrike Wischnewski
  • Gonur Depe (Turkmenistan) and its role in the middle Asian interaction sphere / Federica Lume Pereira
  • The appropriation of early bronze technology in China / Jianjun Mei, Yongbin Yu, Kunlong Chen, Lu Wang
  • Patterns of transformation from the final Neolithic to the early Bronze age : a case study from the Lech Valley south of Augsburg / Ken Massy, Corina Knipper, Alissa Mittnik, Steffen Kraus, Ernst Pernicka, Fabian Wittenborn, Johannes Krause, Philipp W. Stockhammer
  • Yet another revolution? weapon technology and use wear in late Neolithic and early Bronze age southern Scandinavia / Christian Horn.