THIS ISSUE CONTAINS THE ROLE OF BURINS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH ART THROUGH TRACE ANALYSIS AT THE UPPER PALAEOLITHIC SITE OF POLESINI CAVE (LATIUM, ITALY) Flavia Venditti, Cristina Lemorini, Magda Bordigoni, Daniela Zampetti, Mario Amore, Antonio Tagliacozzo THE STATE OF THE LATE NEOLITHIC POTTERY OF DOMUZTEPE IN THE TURKISH EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN Halil Tekin SIGN AND IMAGE: REPRESENTATIONS OF PLANTS ON THE WARKA VASE OF EARLY MESOPOTAMIA Naomi F. Miller, Philip Jones, Holly Pittman THE EARLY STAGES OF THE SUMERIAN CITY AT TELL ZURGHUL: NEW RESULTS FROM RECENT EXCAVATIONS Davide Nadali, Andrea Polcaro DOMESTIC LIVESTOCK, PASTORAL NOMADISM AND COMPLEX SOCIETIES IN THE NILE VALLEY: REFLECTIONS ON OLD QUESTIONS Isabella Caneva THE FONDARCA CAVE AND CAVITIES USED AS A CULT PLACE DURING THE BRONZE AGE IN CENTRAL ITALY Gian Maria Di Nocera – POTTERY IN GROTTA DELLE NOTTOLE Patrizia Costa, Francesco Marano, Elena Pizzo, Fabio Rossi – GEOLOGY AND TOPOGRAPHY AT GROTTA DELLE NOTTOLE Giorgio Brocato, Filippo Bozzo, Federico Moresi, Giancarlo Pastura, Emilia Gallo – FAUNAL ANALYSIS Azzurra Mascelloni – SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATION OF METAL AND AMBER OBJECTS FROM THE BRONZE AGE SITE OF FONDARCA Giorgia Agresti, Claudia Pelosi, Ulderico Santamaria THE EARLIEST PROCESSES TOWARD CITY-STATES, POLITICAL POWER AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN MIDDLE TYRRHENIAN ITALY Marco Pacciarelli “THE KING AT THE GATE”. MONUMENTAL FORTIFICATIONS AND THE RISE OF LOCAL ELITES AT ARSLANTEPE AT THE END OF THE 2ND MILLENNIUM BCE Federico Manuelli, Lucia Mori THE ELEPHANT REMAINS FROM GAVUR LAKE (SOUTH-EASTERN TURKEY). RESTORATION AND DISPLAY Nadire Mine Yar, Fabio Parenti, Ebru Albayrak, Coskun Köysu – SIGNIFICANCE OF THE GAVUR LAKE ELEPHANT FOR THE HISTORY OF BRONZE AND IRON AGE ANATOLIA Silvia Alaura