The volume contains a foreword, greetings from the head of the federal archaeological authorities, a bibliography of the honoured, and 29 papers. These contributions deal with an IA bronze belt plate and iron chain necklace, the Neolithic revolution, soil stains left by a decayed Celtic warrior, WW II bomb craters, the Medieval to Early Modern Ginsburg, a megalithic tomb of the Funnelbeaker Culture, an Iron Age settlement, Ipf and Goldberg at the transition LBA-EIA, the IA bridge at Kirchhain-Niederwald, Latène belt chains, the Medieval potter’s village of Baldersdorf, IA weapon hoards, a BA settlement hoard, and the Großgartach settlement of Mannheim-Wallstadt. Other topics are the antique “mole stone”, elements of mounted steppe warriors in the Hallstatt period, gates of the :ate IA, olive oil at Mycenaean Pylos, the sword of Sethos II, the fortifications of Hordişte-Ţipova, BA mining pickaxes, Upper Italian ivories, the “Carian andron”, continuity on the upper River Tigris between 2.300 and 900 B.C., evidence for new Hurrian and Luwian words, A. Papadopoulos Kerameus’ research, written documents on the goddess Abara, statistics of Hittite pottery, and the settlement and fortress of Havuz.
