Thirty contributions in German and English are devoted to the archaeologist Reinhard Dittmann (University of Munster). They cover a broad range of topics of Near Eastern Archaeology and Assyriology, from Neolithic and Chalcolithic times until early Christianity in Northern Iraq, from Cyprus in the West to Iran in the East.Thirty contributions in German and English are devoted to the archaeologist Reinhard Dittmann (University of Munster). They cover a broad range of topics of Near Eastern Archaeology and Assyriology, from Neolithic and Chalcolithic times until early Christianity in Northern Iraq, from Cyprus in the West to Iran in the East.Kai Kaniuth / Daniel Lau / Dirk Wicke: Vorwort Schriftenverzeichnis von Reinhard Dittmann Reinhard Bernbeck: Intrusions - On the Relations of Materiality and Suffering Susan Pollock: The Animals from Tepe Sohz Zeidan A. Kafafi: Neolithic Structures in the Jordanian Arid Zones: A Synthesis Christine Winkelmann / Andrew McCarthy: A Foot in the Door - An Anthropomorphic Figurine Fragment from Prastio Mesorotsos and the Beginning of Sedentism in Cyprus Susanne Kerner: The Times are a-changing - Gesellschaftliche Veranderungen vom Spatchalkolithikum zum Beginn der Fruhen Bronzezeit in der sudlichen Levante Helga Vogel: Gewaltszenen' in der urukzeitlichen Glyptik - Moglichkeiten und Grenzen ihrer Interpretation Philip L. Kohl: Silence and Noise in the Archaeological Record - When Archaeological Understandings may not be Underdetermined Thomas E. Balke: Einige Uberlegungen zum fruhdynastischen Kudurru FMB 27 - Versuch einer palaografischen Annaherung und Bestimmung Morteza Hessari: A New Proto-Elamite Seal Impression from Tappeh Sofalin, Central Iranian Plateau Petr Charvat: An Akkadian-style Seal Impression from Ur Gebhard J. Selz: Intimate Relations - Reconsidering Backgrounds of the Mesopotamian Mistress of the Animals Hans Neumann: Keilschrifttexte aus kleineren deutschen Sammlungen II - Die historischen Texte aus der l³I