Download or read book Appropriating Innovations written by Joseph Maran and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appropriating innovations seeks to turn its head the familiar idea that the spread of innovations is a gradual and linear process bringing progress in the development of societies, especially during the late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age in the Near East and Europe. Instead, the papers presented here concentrate on exploring pre-conditions for, mec