At head of t.p.: Ankara University, Research Center for Maritime Archaeology (Ankusam)

Articles chiefly in English, with some in Germanand French. Title page and preface in Turkish.

Includes bibliographical references.

Opening speech / Mayor Bulent Baratali -- Opening speech / Ekrem Akurgal -- Opening speech / Christos Doumas -- Myrina in prehistoric times / Lilian Acheilara -- Donnees recentes concernant le site prehistorique de Dimini : la continuité d l’habitation littorale depuis le debut du Néolithique recent jusqua la fin du Bronze Ancien / Vassiliki Adrimi-Sismani -- Fruhe fortifikationssysteme in Griechenland / Ioannis Aslanis -- A flaked-stone industry from Mytiline : a preliminary report / Panagiota Aygerinou -- Kastraki : a new Bronze Age settlement in Achaea Phthiotis / Anthi Batziou-Efstathiou -- A forgotten island : Kalymnos in the late Neolithic period / Mario Benzi -- Relations between İkiztepe by the Black Sea coast and the Aegean world before Iron Age / Onder Bilgi -- Cinnabar and the Cyclades : body modification and the political structure in the late EB I southern Cyclades / Tristan Carter -- The Aegean islands and their role in the developement of civilisation / Christos Doumas -- Prehistoric topography of Lemnos : the early Bronze Age / Anthi Dova -- The Neolithic of the Aegean islands : a new picture emerging / Nikos Efstratiou -- Die neue Forschungen in Bakla Tepe bei İzmir / Hayat Erkanal -- Liman Tepe : a new light on the prehistoric Aegean cultures / Hayat Erkanal -- The Asea Valley from the Neolithic period to the Early Bronze Age / Jeanette Forsén -- Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age pottery of southwest Anatolia / David H. French -- Metal sources for early Bronze Age Troy and the Aegean / Noel Gale -- Zur Chronologie Sudwestkleinasiens in der 2. Halfte des 3. Jahrtausends v. Chr / Barthel Hrouda -- 1996 Rettungsgrabungen auf dem Yenibademli Hoyuk, Gokceada/Imbros / Halime Huryilmaz -- Metallurgical residues from late Chalcolithic and early Bronze Age Liman Tepe / Ergun Kaptan -- Etude comparative des industries lithique taillees du Neolithique final et du Bronze Ancien Egeen : le cas de Pefkakia / Anna Karabatsoli and Lia Karimali -- Flechtwerkgabaude aus Osttrakien / Necmi Karul -- The early Bronze Age pottery from northwest Turkey in light of results of a survey around the Marmara Sea / Sinan Kilic -- Zur Struktur der fruhbronzezeitlichen insularen Gesellschaften der Nord- und Ostagais : ein neues Bild der sogenannten "Trojanischen Kultur" / Ourania Kouka -- Some finds of Balkan (or Anatolian) type in the Neolithic deposit of Theopetra Cave, Thessaly / Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika -- First impressions : a preliminary account of matt impressed pottery in the prehistoric Aegean / Laura Labriola -- Aspects of early Bronze Age jewellery in the Aegean / Robert Laffineur -- The early Bronze Age sites of Lesbos and the Madra Cay Delta : new light on the discrete regional centre of prehistoric settlement and society in the northeast Aegean / Kyriakos Lambrianides and Nigel Spencer -- Metallic mineral deposits and occurences of Izmir District, Turkey / Yunus Lengeranli -- Les sites du Neolithique recent dans le Golfe Pagasetique : la transformation des sites de l’age de Bronze en sites urbains (le cas de Dimini) / Eftalia Makri-Skotinioti and Vassiliki Adrimi-Sismani -- Magoula Orgozinos : a Neolithic site in western Thessaly, Greece / Elsa Nikolaou, Vasso Rondiri and Lia Karimali -- Plant remains from Liman Tepe and Bakla Tepe in teh İzmir Region / Emel Oybak and Cahit Dogan -- Looking for ’texts’ in the Neolithic Aegean : space, place and the study of domestic architecture (poster summary) / Demetra Papaconstantinou -- Some thoughts on the problem of relations between the Aegean and western Greece in the early Bronze Age / Athanassios J. Papadopoulos and Spyridoula Kontorli-Papadopoulou -- Limenaria : a Neolithic and early Bronze Age settlement at Thasos / Stratis Papadopoulos and Dimitra Malamidou -- Connecting the Early Bronze I and II periods in the Aegean / Daniel J. Pullen -- Anatolian roots of early Helladic III drinking behavior / Jeremy B. Rutter -- New evidence for the relations between the Izmir Region, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland during the third millenium BC / Vasif Şahoğlu -- From the Mesolithic to the Neolithic : new data on Aegean prehistory / Adamantios Sampson -- Symbols from the Aegean world : the case of late Neolithic figurines and house models from Thessaly / Evangelia Skafida -- The Cyclades, the east of Aegean islands and the western Asia Minor : their relations in the Aegean late Neolithic and early Bronze Age / Panagiota Sotirakopoulou -- Soziale une okonomische Aspekte des Chalkolithikums (spatneolithikum II) in der Agais aufgrund alter und neuer Angaben / Georgia Stratouli -- Recent Neolithic research in the eastern Thassalian Plain, Greece : a preliminary report / George Toufexis -- IRERP Survey Program : new prehistoric settlements in the Izmir Region / Riza Tuncel -- People of the Hoyuks versus people of the mountains? / Hannelore Vanhaverbeke ... [et al.] -- An alternative suggestion in archaeological data presentations : Neolithic culture through the finds from Volos Archaeological Museum / Kostas Vouzaxakis -- Closing remarks / Machteld J. Mellink.