The proceedings of the first conference under the same title from 19th-21st March 2018 at Freie Universität Berlin contains a foreword, a theoretical introduction on periodisation [Schier], and 13 papers. These deal with the introduction of iron in the Old World [Lehnhardt] and in Northern Eurasia [Koryakova, Kuzminykh], the bronze/iron transition in Central Europe with regard to a new period, a new metal, and possibly new values [Pare], Greek dates and revised chronologies based on the historical and archaeological context of the radiocarbon dates from Sindos [Gimatzidis], the chronology of the LBA / EIA in the Iberian Peninsula 1200-600 B.C. [Mederos Martín], the transition from BA to IA in Northern Europe [Kneisel], the Eastern Baltic [Sperling, Lang], the Central Russian forest zone [Syrovatko], the northern Black Sea Region [Kashuba], the Western and Central Balkans [Gavranović], and the Eastern Carpathian Basin [Gogâltan], the chronologies of the Koban Culture and their importance for the construction of supraregional chronological horizons in the North Caucasian EIA [Reinhold] as well as the periodisation of BA sites in South-Eastern Europe [Bochkarev].
