The seventeenth issue of the journal includes a selection of essays that explore the territories of both the western and eastern Balkans, from northwestern Bosnia through the Lower Danube to Eastern Thrace, and range in time from the Upper Paleolithic to the Late Bronze Age. Topics include a new theory for the spread of Anatomically Modern Humans, an evaluation of ditch filling practices, investigations on house construction and use, different approaches in the analysis of finds, a reconsideration of a transitional period, and a discussion on connections between central and peripheral communities.

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From the Editor

The Aurignacian in northern Bosnia revisited (Sofija Dragosavac)

Enclosing the settlement or filling the ditch: The case of Aşağı Pınar (Eylem Özdoğan)

The transition from the Late Neolithic to the Early Eneolithic in northwestern Serbia: Reconsideration and suggestions for future work (Dragan Milanović, Marinko Antonijević, and Srećko Živanović)

Wood construction at the Copper Age tell site of Hotnitsa, north central Bulgaria: Four Late Chalcolithic case studies (Paul Bacoup)

The Late Copper Age building BII-21B at Tell Yunatsite, south central Bulgaria (Kamen Boyadzhiev, Yavor Boyadzhiev, Victoria Haleva, Tzvetana Popova, Juan José García-Granero, Monika Jovanović, Nadezhda Karastoyanova, Victoria Russeva, Orlene McIlfatrick, Beatrijs de Groot, Nikolay Sirakov, Ekaterina Mitrinova, Petko Panchov, and Valeri Petrov)

Encrusted Pottery Culture ceramic imports in northwest Bulgaria (Georgi Ivanov, Tanya Hristova, Mihaela Zaneva, and Stefan Alexandrov)

Gift of the River: A Late Bronze Age sword with cup-shaped pommel from the river Sava (Aleksandar Jašarević)

Morphometric analysis of Bronze Age funerary vessels from the necropolis of Mokrin (Mihailo Radinović and Marija Krečković Gavrilović)

Utopias and myths in time. Review of The dawn of everything: A new history of humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021. Pp. 704. ISBN 9780374157357 (paper).  (Kostas Kotsakis)