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Innovation minus modernity: revisiting some relations of technical and social change / Cornelius Schubert -- From counting to writing: the innovative potential of bookkeeping in Uruk period Mesopotamia / Kristina Sauer -- Uruk, pastoralism and secondary products: was it a revolution? a view from the Anatolian highlands / Maria Bianca D'Anna and Giulio Palumbi -- The "green revolution" in prehistory: late Neolithic agricultural innovations as a technological system / Maria Ivanova -- The spread of productive and technological innovations in Europe and Near East: an integrated zooarchaeological perspective on secondary animal products and bronze utilitarian metallurgy / Haskel J. Greenfield -- Early wagons in Eurasia: disentangling an enigmatic innovation / Stefan Burmeister -- Contextualising innovation: cattle owners and wagon drivers in the North Caucasus and beyond / Sabine Reinhold, Julia Gresky, Natalia Berezina, Anatoly R. Kantorovich, Corina Knipper, Vladimir E. Maslov, Vladimira G. Petrenko, Kurt W. Alt and Andrey B. Belinsky -- Innovation, interaction and society in Europe in the 4th millennium BCE: the "traction complex" as innovation and "technology cluster" / Maleen Leppek -- Wheels of change: the polysemous nature of early wheeled vehicles in 3rd millennium BCE central and northwest European societies / Joseph Maran -- Appropriating draught cattle technology in southern Scandinavia: roles, context and consequences / Niels N. Johannsen -- Key techniques in the production of metals in the 6th and 5th millennia: prerequisites, preconditions and consequences / Svend Hansen -- The diffusion of know-how within spheres of interaction: modelling prehistoric innovation processes between South-West Asia and Central Europe in the 5th and 4th millennia BC / Florian Klimscha -- A comparative angle on metallurgical innovations in South-Western Asia: what came first? / Barbara Helwing -- The role of metallurgy in different types of early hierarchical socie