1st Edition
What’s New? A Closer Look at the Process of Innovation
Foreword
P.J. Ucko
Preface
Sander E. van der Leeuw and Robin Torrence
Introduction: what’s new about innovation?
Robin Torrence and Sander E. van der Leeuw
1. Innovation and the integration of sociocultural systems
Thomas Bargatzky
2. Pellaport
Robert Layton
3. Alternative technologies and socio-economic contexts of adaptation: a study of the coastal fishermen of Saurashtra in western India
Haribhai G. Patel
4. The genesis of coaxial field systems
Andrew Fleming
5. Dynamics of production intensification in precontact Hawaii
Marion Kelly
6. The impact of Inca conquest on local technology in the Upper Montaro Valley, Peru
Cathy Costin, Timonthy Earle, Bruce Owen & Glenn Russell
7. Technological change as social rebellion
Dick A. Papousek
8. Technological continuity and change among the Andrea peasants: opposition between local and global strategies
Mario A. Rabey
9. Ignoring innovation–denying change: the role of iron and the impact of external influences on the transformation of Scandinavian societies 800–500 BC
Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
10. The beginnings of pottery as an economic process
James A. Brown
11. The context of adoption of brass technology in northeastern Nigeria and its effects on the elaboration of culture
James A. Wade
12. Innovation theory made plain
D.A. Spratt
13. Modelling innovation and change
Peter M. Allen
14. Modelling the innovative component of social change
James McGlade and Jacqueline M. McGlade
15. Risk, perception, innovation
Sander E. van der Leeuw
16. Cultural transmission and cultural change
Stephen Shennan
Biography
Sander E. van der Leeuw is a Foundation Professor at Arizona State University and co-director of the ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems. His research interests include Archaeology of the later Holocene; Ancient and Modern Human-Environment Relationships; Sustainability; Innovation; Complex Systems Approaches; History and Archaeology of Techniques; Urbanization and Urban Dynamics. In 2012 he was awarded the "Champion of the Earth for Science and Innovation" prize by the United Nations Environment Program.
Robin Torrence is Senior Fellow, Archaeology and Geosciences at the Australian Museum Research Institute. Dr Torrence's archaeological research focuses on the roles of ancient material culture, especially stone tools, in peoples’ daily lives, social strategies, and exchange systems. Her current research aims to understand social change in western Pacific societies over the past c. 50,000 years, since earliest colonization of the region.
