Innovationen und Schlüsseltechnologien im 4. Jt. v. Chr.
Innovations and key technologies in the 4th millennium BC

Summary/Abstract: Studies of innovative technologies and their intermingled networks shall help to sketch the development and fundaments of social complexity [Rothman 2004, 75-119] and the formation of political systems in the 4th millennium BC. In the context of visible changes of social structures, a direct relation and reciprocity between knowledge and society is revealed: it is innovations, new production methods and (standardized) production techniques that shed light on these knowledge communities. In order to broaden awareness for diverse human motives and to offer a different perspective on technological and social change in prehistoric societies, an excursus on film art of the Weimar Republic shall widen the perspective on the topic “innovation and change” in the Copper Age.

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