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Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments List of abbreviations A. KEYNOTE LECTURE - Joseph MARAN, Seaborne Contacts between the Aegean, the Balkans and the Central Mediterranean in the 3rd Millennium BC: The Unfolding of the Mediterranean World B. THEORETICAL ISSUES - Kristian KRISTIANSEN and Thomas LARSSON, Contacts and Travels during the 2nd Millennium BC. Warriors on the Move - Birgitta EDER, The Power of Seals: Palaces, Peripheries and Territorial Control in the Mycenaean World - Anthony F. HARDING, Interconnections between the Aegean and Continental Europe in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages: Moving beyond Scepticism - Stasa BABIC, Translation Zones or Gateway Communities Revisited: The Case of Trebeniste and Sindos - Stefanie A.H. KENNELL, Schliemann's Comparative Approach to European Prehistory: The Personal Element C. EARLY ENCOUNTERS - Vassiliki ADRYMI-SISMANI, Le site chalcolithique de Microthebes au carrefour du monde egeen et des Balkans du Nord - Jorg RAMBACH, Olympia and Andravida-Lechaina: Two Bronze Age Sites in the Northwest Peloponnese with Far-reaching Overseas Cultural Connections - Volker HEYD, When the West Meets the East: The Eastern Periphery of the Bell Beaker Phenomenon and its Relation with the Aegean Early Bronze Age - Jacqueline BALEN and Sanjin MIHELIC, Silver Axes from Stari Jankovci and the Problem of Finds of Precious Metals during the Early Bronze Age in Continental Croatia Cristina ENACHESCU, The Cernavoda III-Boleraz Phenomenon: Eneolithic, Kupferzeit, Jungsteinzeit or Early Bronze Age - Viktoria KISS, Contacts along the Danube: A Boat Model from the Early Bronze Age D. RECENT FIELDWORK Michael GALATY, There Are Prehistoric Cities Up There: The Bronze and Iron Ages in Northern Albania - Gilles TOUCHAIS et Petrika LERA, L'Albanie meridionale et le monde egeen a l'age du Bronze: problemes chronologiques et rapports culturels - Bernhard HANSEL, Agaische Siedlungsstrukturen in Monkodonja/Istrien? - Biba TERZAN, Cultural Connections