Browsing by Author "Klimscha, Florian"

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2021-09Buch

Contextualising Ancient Technology

From Archaeological Case Studies Towards a Social Theory of Ancient Innovation Processes

Klimscha, Florian; Hansen, Svend; Renn, Jürgen

The diffusion of innovations from the Near East into the ‘static’ surrounding peripheries has become a well-known archaeological paradigm, often summed up as Ex Oriente Lux. While this conflicts with modern, scientifically ...
2017-05-18Buch

The Interplay of People and Technologies

Archaeological Case Studies on Innovations

Bernbeck, Reinhard; Burmeister, Stefan; Hahn, Hans peter; Dittrich, Annett; Klimscha, Florian; Meyer, Michael; Reinhold, Sabine; Pollock, Susan; Rüden, Constance von; De Zilva, Sayuri; Jung, Matthias

Histories of innovation are prototypical success stories. The advent of the wheel, of writing, printing, the steam engine or computers: where would we be without these path-breaking technological innovations and their ...
2017-05-18Teil eines Buches

What Makes the World Go Round? SilencedConsequences of the Introduction of Metallurgy

Klimscha, Florian

Dieser Beitrag beschreibt die Veränderungen, die die Einführung der extraktiven Metallurgie in der südlichen Levante bewirkten. Dabei wird eine Langzeitperspektive eingenommen. Der Autor fasst aktuelle Perspektiven im ...