Contents

• Director’s Foreword / Philippe de Montebello
• Acknowledgments / Mahrukh Tarapor
• Acknowledgments / Joan Aruz
• Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus / Joan Aruz
• Uruk and the Formation of the City / Hans J. Nissen
• Art of the Early City-States / Donald P. Hansen
• The Proto- Elamite Period / Holly Pittman
• Fara / Joachim Marzahn - - Excavations in the Diyala Region / Karen L. Wilson
• Stone Sculpture Production / Jean-Francois de Laperouse
• Nippur / Jean M. Evans
• Tello (Ancient Girsu) / Beatrice Andre-Salvini
• Metalworking Techniques / Jean-Francois de Laperouse
• Al Ubaid / Paul Collins
• Kish / Paul Collins
• The Royal Tombs of Ur / Julian Reade
• The Tomb of Puabi / Paul Collins
• The Great Death Pit at Ur / Julian Reade
• Mari and the Syro-Mesopotamian World / Jean-Claude Margueron
• The Treasure of Ur from Mari / Nadja Cholidis
• Ebla and the Early Urbanization of Syria / Paolo Matthiae
• Tell Umm el-Marra / Glenn M. Schwartz
• Tell Banat / Anne Porter and Thomas McClellan
• Art of the Akkadian Dynasty / Donald P. Hansen
• Lost-Wax Casting / Jean-Francois de Laperouse
• Tell Mozan (Ancient Urkesh) / Georgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly- Buccellati
• Tell Brak in the Akkadian Period / Jean M. Evans
• Art and Interconnections in the Third Millennium B.C. / Joan Aruz
• Egypt and the Near East in the Third Millennium B.C. / James P. Allen
• The Aegean and Western Anatolia: Social Forms and Cultural Relationships / Claus Reinholdt
• The Early Bronze Age Jewelry Hoard from Kolonna, Aigina / Claus Reinholdt
• Troy / Eleni Drakaki
• Poliochni and the Civilization of the Northeastern Aegean / Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki
• The Central Anatolian Plateau: The Tombs of Alaca Hoyuk / Oscar White Muscarella
• The North Caucasus / Elena Izbitser
• The Maikop (Oshad) Kurgan / Yuri Piotrovsky
• Novosvobodnaya / Yuri Piotrovsky
• Susa: Beyond the Zagros Mountains / Paul Collins
• The Gulf: Dilmun and Magan / D. T. Potts - - Copper Alloys and Metal Sources / Jean-Francois de Laperouse
• Tell Abraq / Paul Collins
• The Island of Tarut / Paul Collins
• "Intercultural Style" Carved Chlorite Objects / Joan Aruz
• Pathways across Eurasia / Maurizio Tosi and C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
• Altyn-depe / Yuri Piotrovsky
• Gonur-depe / Elisabetta Valtz Fino
• The Indus Civilization / Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
• Baluchistan / Paul Collins
• Cities of the Indus Valley / Paul Collins
• Beads of the Indus Valley / Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
• Approaching the Divine: Mesopotamian Art at the End of the Third Millennium B.C. / Jean M. Evans
• The Rediscovery of Gudea Statuary in the Hellenistic Period / Beatrice Andre-Slavini
• The Earliest Scholastic Tradition / Piotr Michalowski
• Uruk and the World of Gilgamesh / Beate Salje
• The Mesopotamian Legacy: Origins of the Genesis Tradition / Ira Spar
• App. Problems of Third-Millennium-B.C. Chronology / Julian Reade