Detecting and explaining technological innovation in prehistory

Michela Spataro is a scientist in the Department: Conservation and Scientific Research at the British Museum. She is particularly interested in the provenance of ceramic raw materials (clays and mineral inclusions) which can indicate where a pot was manufactured, and therefore shed light on patterns of pottery production and trade in the past. Martin Furholt is Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo, Norway. Before he was working as Research Fellow and Lecturer at the CAU Kiel.His main research interests are the social and political organisation, mobility and community composition, local and regional social networks of Neolithic and Bronze Age communities in Southeast Europe, Central Europe, and Northern Europe. He conducted his Phd research on Baden Complex materials in Poland and Czech Republic, and his Habilitation thesis on the Neolithic and Chalkolithic of the Aegean Region.He is currently conducting fieldwork on 6th millennium Neolithic settlement in Slovakia and Serbia, and publishes papers related to the ongoing 3rd millennium migration debate in Europe.Key publicationsMartin Furholt, Massive migrations? The impact of recent aDNA studies on our view of third millennium Europe. European Journal of Archaeology 21, 2, 2018, 159-191.Martin Furholt, Translocal Communities – Exploring Mobility and Migration of Sedentary Societies in the European Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. Prähistorische Zeitschrift 92, 2, 2018, 304–321.Martin Furholt, Upending a ‘Totality’: Re-evaluating Corded Ware Variability in Late Neolithic Europe. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 80, 2014, 67 – 86.

• PrefaceMichela SpataroIntroductionMichela Spataro and Martin FurholtUnderstanding the acceptance of innovative technical skills across time. Ethnographic and theoretical insights from Latin AmericaDean E. ArnoldInnovation or inheritance? Assessing the social mechanisms underlying ceramic technological change in early Neolithic pottery assemblages in Central EuropeLouise Gomart, Alexandra Anders, Attila Kreiter, Tibor Marton, Krisztián Oross and Pál RaczkyChanges in the pottery production of the Linear Pottery Culture. Origins and directions of ideasAnna Rauba-Bukowska and Agnieszka Czekaj-ZastawnyInnovations in ceramic technology in the context of culture change north of the Carpathians at the turn of the 6th and 5th millennia BCSławomir KadrowNeolithic pottery innovation in context. A model and case study from the Central and Western BalkansRobert HofmannTechnological innovation and social change. Early vs. late Neolithic pottery production of the Central BalkansJasna VukovićTechnological changes and innovations in the osseous industries in the early and late Neolithic in the BalkansSelena VitezovićEarly wheel-made pottery in the Carpathian BasinSzabolcs Czifra, Éva Kovács-Széles, Orsolya Viktorik, Péter Pánczél and Attila KreiterThe onset of wheel-throwing in Middle Asia. A neolithic innovation?Massimo VidaleTechnological Innovation. Defining terms and examining process through the talc-faience complex in the Indus CivilizationHeather Margaret-Louise MillerSkill in high-temperature crafts. An artisanal perspective on fireKatarina Botwid