INTRODUCTION
Catherine Marro, Thomas Stöllner
On salt, copper and gold. The story behind shepherds, metallurgists and miners in the first mining enterprises of the Caucasus

EARLY MINING IN THE CAUCASUS AND BEYOND

Anthony Harding
Prehistoric rock-salt production

Thierry Gonon, Nicolas Gailhard, Baki Varol, Veli Bakhshaliyev, Catherine Marro
Early salt-mining systems and strategies at Duzdagi, Nakhchivan

Caroline Hamon, Nicolas Gailhard, Gilles Fronteau
Salt-exploitation techniques during the Early Bronze Age in the Caucasus. Technology and use-wear of the macro-lithic tools from Duzdagi and Ku¨ltepe I (Nakhchivan)

Catherine Marro
The functions of Kura-Araxes ceramic containers in Caucasian early mining

Thomas Stöllner, Irina Gambashidze, Nicole Boenke, Werner H. Schoch, with contributions from Antoine Courcier and Tobias Skowronek
The Paravani calculation. The early gold-mining complex in Sakdrisi and its societal impact

Ketevan Tamazashvili
The prehistoric mining implements from Georgia

Nino Otchvani, Felix Klein, Sebastian Senczek, Irina Gambashidze, Thomas Stöllner
Kura-Araxes ceramics and the prehistoric gold mine of Sakdrisi

EARLY METALLURGY IN THE CAUCASUS AND BEYOND

Nicolas Gailhard, Michael Bode, Veli Bakhshaliyev, Catherine Marro
The invisible movements of metallurgy: the interactions between nomads and metal. Some evidence from Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan) during the Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age

Moritz Jansen, Andreas Hauptmann, Sabine Klein, Irina Gambashidze, Bakhtiyar Jalilov
Geochemistry of gold from the prehistoric mine of Sakdrisi and Transcaucasian gold artefacts between the 4th and 2nd millennia BC

Barbara Helwing
Patterns of early metallurgy on the Iranian Plateau, from the beginnings to the end of the Bronze Age

Nima Nezafati, Ernst Pernicka, Barbara Helwing, Dirk Kirchner
Reassessment of the prehistoric metallurgy at Arisman, Central Iran

EARLY MINING AND METALLURGY WITHIN THEIR BROADER ECONOMIC CONTEXT

Rémi Berthon, Julia Giblin, Marie Balasse, Denis Fiorillo, Éric Bellefroid
The role of herding strategies in the exploitation of natural resources by early mining communities in the Caucasus

Giulio Palumbi, Irena Kalantaryan, Adrian Balasescu, Olivier Barge, Jwana Chahoud, Roman Hovsepyan, Khachatur Meliksetian, Pavel Avetisyan, Christine Chataigner
Early pastoralism and natural resource management: recent research at Godedzor

Estelle Herrscher, Modwene Poulmarc'h, Liana Bitadze, Nikoloz Vanishvili, Guy André
Is there homogeneity in Georgian Kura-Araxes human dietary practices?

Catherine Longford, Antonio Sagona
The Kura-Araxes economy: mobile pastoralism or sedentary agriculture? Perspectives from Sos Höyu¨k

Veli Bakhshaliyev
Archaeological investigations at Nakhchivan Tepe

Judith Thomalsky
Obsidian tool production in the South Caucasus of the 5th and 4th millennium BCE. Technology, typology and sociocultural implications

THE EXPLOITATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES IN THE CAUCASUS IN LATE PREHISTORY

Laurence Astruc, Antoine Courcier, Bernard Gratuze, Denis Guilbeau, Moritz Jansen, Sonia Ostaptchouk, Bertille Lyonnet, Farhad Guliyev
The use of natural resources at Mentesh Tepe during the Late Chalcolithic period and the Early Bronze Age

Ruben Badalyan
The exploitation of mineral resources in Armenia in the Early Bronze Age. Obsidian, metal, bitumen, and salt

Thomas Stöllner
From generalists to specialists? Transcaucasian communities and their approach to resources during the 5th and the 3rd millennium BCE