Opening lectures to main themes = Apertura de las sesiones temáticas

• Considérations sur l'histoire de l'archéologie, ses origines et son développement actuel

  Nicole Chevalier

  págs. 31-36

  

• Arts, crafts and the state: a dialectic process

  Stefania Mazzoni

  págs. 37-54

  

Papers and posters = Comunicaciones y pósters

• Territoire et paysage dans la province romaine de la Syrie: la centuriatio d'Emesa (Homs)

  Maamoun Abdulkarim, Oriol Olesti Vila

  págs. 55-76

  

• Astragalus bone in Ancient Near East: ritual depositions in Iron Age in Tell Afis

  Giorgio Affanni

  págs. 77-92

  

• Egyptian and Egyptianizing stone vessels from the royal tomb and palace at Tell Misrife/Qatna (Syria): imports and local imitations

  Alexander Ahrens

  págs. 93-106

  

• The neolithization process in Azerbaijan: an introduction to review

  Bahram Ajorloo

  págs. 107-126

  

• From the analysis of the archaeological context to the life of a community. "Ethnographic" remarks on the Arslantepe VIB2 village

  Corrado Alvaro, C. Lemorini, Giulio Palumbi, Paola Piccione

  págs. 127-136

  

• Towards understanding religious character of Tell Hazna 1 oval

  Shahmardan N. Amirov

  págs. 137-150

  

• The megalithic necropolises in the Homs Gap (Syria): a preliminary approach

  Angel Armendáriz Gutiérrez, Luis Teira-Mayolini, M. Al-Maqdissi, Maya Haïdar-Boustani, Juan José Ibáñez Estévez, Jesús González

  págs. 151-162

  

• Akpinar

  Ana Arroyo

  págs. 163-174

  

• Un atelier de fabrication de récipients en pierre à Khirokitia: (Néolothique pré-céramique récent, VIIe millénaire av. JC, Chypre)

  Laurence Astruc, Odile Daune Le Brun, Alain Le Brun, Fouad Hourani

  págs. 175-186

  

• Middle Bronze Khabur Ware from Tell Barri/Kahat

  Giulia Baccelli, Federico Manuelli

  págs. 187-206

  

• Avaris and Memphis in the Second Intermediate Period in Egypt (ca. 1770-1770-1550/40 BC)

  Betina Bader

  págs. 207-224

  

• Who locked the door? Fortification walls and city gates in Middle Bronze Age inner Syria: Ebla and Tell Tuqan

  Francesca Baffi Guardata

  págs. 225-244

  

• El aporte de los mapas y descripciones antiguas en el ensayo de reconstrucción de sitios arqueológicos, periferias y rutas: (con uso del SIG)

  Leticia Barda

  págs. 245-252

  

• A propos des installations dans la cour du Temple Ovale de Khafajah

  Chiara Dezzi Bardeschi

  págs. 253-272

  

• The Stele of Tell Ashara: the Neo-Syrian perspective

  Cristina Bellino, Ada Vallorani

  págs. 273-284

  

• Iconographic representations from Early Iron Age Philistia and their ethnic implications

  David Ben-Shlomo

  págs. 285-304

  

• Manifestaciones artísticas desde Oriente Próximo a Al-Andalus

  Ana Isabel Beneyto Lozano

  págs. 305-322

  

• The pottery from IA II-III levels of Late-Assyrian to Post-Assyrian period in Tell Barri/Kahat

  Luca Bombardieri, Carlotta Forasassi

  págs. 323-338

  

• The Kilamuwa Relief: ethnicity, class and power in Iron Age North Syria

  Brian Brown

  págs. 339-355

  

• The Late Chalcolithic settlement in the Leilan region of Northeastern Syria: a preliminary assessment

  Anna Brustolon, E. Rova

  págs. 357-381

  

• Tell Afis. The walled acropolis: (Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age I). A work in progress

  Serena M. Cecchini, Giorgio Affanni, Andrea Di Michele

  págs. 383-391

  

• From monument to town and country: Integrated techniques of surveying at Tilmen Höyük in South-East Turkey

  Barbara Cerasetti, Valentina A. Girelli, Giampaolo Luglio, Bernardo Rondelli, Massimo Zanfini

  págs. 393-402

  

• Fouiller un palais assyrien au XIXe siècle: Victor Place à Khorsabad

  Nicole Chevalier

  págs. 403-416

  

• Post-Assyrian pottery from the Italian excavations at Fort Shalmaneser, 1987-1990. Continuity and change: some suggestions for identifying patterns of variation

  Lucia Chiocchetti

  págs. 417-440

  

• Estrategias de gestión de las materias primas de origen mineral en Tell Halula: primera aproximación

  Xavier Clop i García

  págs. 441-454

  

• A formalized approach to pottery typology: the case of some typical shapes from the Late Bronze Age in Northern Syria

  A. Colantoni, A. Gottarelli

  págs. 455-463

  

• Arslantepe: the building sequence of the EB3 settlement

  Anna Maria Conti, Carlo Persiani

  págs. 465-475

  

• Mitannian pottery from Tell Barri

  Costanza Coppini

  págs. 477-491

  

• Informe preliminar sobre las últimas campañas en al Madam: (2003-2006)

  Joaquín Córdoba Zoilo

  págs. 493-508

  

• The attributes of Ishtar in Old Syrian glyptic and the Mesopotamian literary tradition

  Flaminia Cruciani

  págs. 509-517

  

• Alternative ways for reading some female figurines from Late Prehistoric Mesopotamia and Iran

  Aurelie Daems

  págs. 519-523

  

• Between Mitannians and Middle-Assyrians: changes and links in ceramic culture at Tell Barri and in Syrian Jazirah during the end of the 2nd millennium BC

  Anacleto D'Agostino

  págs. 525-547

  

• Archaeological works at Hirbemerdon Tepe (Turkey): a preliminary report for the first three seasons

  Anacleto D'Agostino, Stefano Valentini, Nicola Laneri

  págs. 549-566

  

• Walking on the Malatya Plain (Turkey): preliminary remarks on Chalcolithic pottery and occupation. 2003-2005 Archaeological Survey Project

  Maria Bianca D'Anna, Romina Laurito, Andrea Ricci

  págs. 567-573

  

• A preliminary report on the 1995 Tell Leilan survey: the pottery from the Hellenistic to the Sasanian period

  Ilaria de Aloe

  págs. 575-585

  

• Cultural transformation and settlement system of Southwestern Anatolia from Neolithic to LBA: a case study from Denizli/Çivril Plain

  Fulya Dedeoglu

  págs. 587-601

  

• Early Christianity in Iraq and the Gulf: a view from the architectural remains

  K. De Langhe

  págs. 603-610

  

• Archaeological research and CORONA: on the use, misuse and full potential of historical remote sensing data

  Tijs De Schacht, Wouter Gheyle, Rudi Goossens, Alain De Wulf

  págs. 611-618

  

• Life and society of the inhabitants of al Madam (UAE): interdisciplinary study of an Iron Age village and its environment

  Carmen del Cerro Linares

  págs. 619-631

  

• Settlements, population and landscape on the Upper Euphrates between V and II millennium BC: results of the Archaeological Survey Project 2003-2005 in the Malatya Plain

  Gian Maria Di Nocera

  págs. 633-645

  

• Dalle straordinarie avventure di Lady Hester Stanhope alla "Crociata" archeologica di Butler: la politica "religiosa" dei viaggi e delle esplorazioni scientifiche nella regione di Damasco tra XIX e XX secolo

  Silvana Di Paolo

  págs. 647-659

  

• Considerations on the archaeological evidence from the Early Dynastic Temple of Inanna at Nippur

  Rita Dolce

  págs. 661-677

  

• Status report on the Early Bronze Age IV Temple in Area E at Tell Qarqur in the Orontes Valley, Syria

  Rudolph H. Dornemann

  págs. 679-710

  

• Artesanos de lo rupestre en el Alto Éufrates sirio durante la época romana

  Alejandro Egea Vivancos

  págs. 711-730

  

• Viajeros y primeras expediciones arqueológicas en Siria: su contribución al redescubrimiento de Hierapolis y su entorno

  Alejandro Egea Vivancos

  págs. 731-740

  

• Fortified citadels in the Early Bronze Age?: new evidence from Tall Bazi (Syria)

  Berthold Einwag

  págs. 741-753

  

• The Halaf ceramics in Sirnak area, Turkey

  Mücella Erdalkiran

  págs. 755-766

  

• Babilonia y los españoles en el siglo XIX

  Fernando Escribano Martín

  págs. 767-774

  

• Pottery of Garrangu style in Azarbaijan (Iran)

  Mohammad Feizkhah

  págs. 775-795

  

• Ceramic evidences from Bampur: a key site to reconstruct the cultural development in the Bampur Valley (Iran) during the third millennium BC

  Elena Felluca

  págs. 797-807

  

• Under-floor burials in a Middle Bronze Age domestic quarter at Tell Mardikh-Ebla, Syria

  Elena Felluca, Silvia Mogliazza

  págs. 809-819

  

Workshops = Talleres de debate

Workshops I. Houses for the living and a place for the dead

• The symbolic dimensions of material culture at Wadi Hammech 27

  Phillip C. Edwards

  págs. 507-520

  

• Les maisons, les vivants, les morts: le cas de Mallaha (Eynan), Israël

  François R. Valla, Fanny Bocquentin

  págs. 522-546

  

• Houses for the living and for the dead?: the case of Tell Halula (Syria)

  Emma Guerrero, Miquel Molist i Montañà, Josep Anfruns

  págs. 547-559

  

• Une place pour les morts dans les maisons de Tell Aswad (Syrie): (Horizon PPNB ancien et PPNB moyen)

  Danielle Stordeur, Rima Khawam

  págs. 561-589

  

• What mean these bones?: considering scale and Neolithic mortuary variability

  Ian Kuijt

  págs. 591-602

  

• Sub-floor burials at Çatalhöyük: exploring relations between the dead, houses, and the living

  B.S. Düring

  págs. 603-620

  

• Burying the dead in Late Neolithic Syria

  Peter M.M.G. Akkermans

  págs. 621-645

  

• Ordering time and space: creating a cultural world

  Trevor Watkins

  págs. 647-659

  

Workshops III. The origins of the Halaf and the rise os styles

• The Proto-Halaf: origins, definition, regional framework and chronology

  Walter Cruells

  págs. 671-689

  

• Feasting in the Steppe-Late Neolithic ceramic change and the rise of the Halaf

  Olivier Nieuwenhuyse

  págs. 691-708

  

• Taming time and timing the tamed

  Reinhard Bernbeck

  págs. 709-728

  

• A contribution to the discussion on the origins of the Halaf culture from chemical analyses of pottery

  M. Le Mière, Maurice Picon

  págs. 729-734

  

• New insights into the ceramic technology of the Proto-Halaf ("Transitional") period by using physico-chemical methods

  Béatrice Robert, Abel Lassalle Casanave, Rémy Chapoulie

  págs. 735-752

  

• Late Neolithic ceramic traditions in Southeastern Anatolia: new insights from Hakemi Use

  Halil Tekin

  págs. 753-767

  

• Noelithic ritual in transition

  Marc Verhoeven

  págs. 769-787