With contributions by: Joni Apakidze, Pavel Avetisyan, Ruben Badalyan, Arsen Bobokhyan, Janos Dani, Jörg Fassbinder, Irina Gambashidse, Svend Hansen, Barbara Helwing, Mark Iserlis, Bakhtiyar Jalilov, Catherine Marro, Najaf Müseibli, Goderzi Narimanishvili, Giulio Palumbi, Jurij Piotrovskij, Juri Rassamakin, Natalia Shishlina, Thomas Stöllner, Vajk Szeverenyi, Levan Tchabashvili, Victor Trifonov

Wolfgang David Vorwort Liane Giemsch and Svend Hansen Introduction Catherine Marro, Veli Bakhshaliyev, Francois-Xavier Le Bourdonnec and Marie Orange A Multi-Directional Bridge? The Geo-Strategic Significance of Nakhchivan during the Late Chalcolithic (4500-3500 BCE) Svend Hansen Axes and Metal Deposits in the Caucasus from the 5th to the 2nd Millennium BCE Pavel Avetisyan, Boris Gasparyan and Arsen Bobokhyan Metal and Knowledge Transfer: Armenia during the 4th and 3rd Millennia BC Thomas StolIner Sakdrisi and the Gold of the Transcaucasus Najaf A. Museibli The Leilatepe Culture of the Late Chalcolithic in the South Caucasus Irina Gambashidze Radiocarbon Dates from the Orchosani Settlement and the Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age Chronology of Samtskhe (South-West Georgia) Yurii Yu. Piotrovskii The Maikop Kurgan (Oshad): A Modern View Bakhtiyar M. Jalilov New Burial Traditions and Early Kurgan Cultures in Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Azerbaijan Viktor A. Trifonov, Natal'ya I. Shishlina and Peter Hommel A New Type of Early Bronze Age Maikop Culture Tombs in the North Caucasus Yurii Yu. Rassamakin Between the Don and the Danube: The Phenomenon of the Zhivotilovka-Volchanskoe Type of Burials at the Turn of the Late Eneolithic and the Early Bronze Age in the Northern Black Sea Steppe Ruben Badalyan From Homogeneity to Heterogeneity. The Periodization and Chronology of Kura-Araxes: The View from Armenia Mark Iserlis Resisting Innovation: Kura-Araxes against the Potter's Wheel Giulio Palumbi The 'Royal Tomb' at Arslantepe and the 3rd Millennium BC in Upper Mesopotamia Janos Dani and Vajk Szeverenyi Archaeological Evidence for Steppe and Caucasian Connections in the Carpathian Basin between the 4th and mid-3rd Millennia BC - Is There a 'Yamnaya Package'? Joni Apakidze The Eastern Black Sea Area in the 3rd Millennium BC - Knowledge and Technological Innovations Goderdzi Narimanishvili, Nino Shanshashvili and Dimitri Narimanishvili Trialeti Culture: Life, Death and Processional Roads to Eternity Barbara Helwing South Caucasia and the East in the Mirror of Imagery: Bronze Age Elite Networks from the Southern Caucasus to the Oxus River and the Persian Gulf Levan Tchabashvili On the Possible Contacts between the South Caucasus and the Aegean World in the Bronze Age, with the Example of the Trialeti Culture Jorg W.E. Fassbinder, Florian Becker, Sandra Hahn and Mandana Parsi Archaeological Geophysics: Case Studies from Bronze Age/Iron Age Sites in the Alazani and Shiraki Plains, Kakheti, Georgia