Table of Contents:
  • Villages in the steppe, later Neolithic settlement and subsistence in the Balikh Valley, northern Syria ; Bibliography ; Foreword / Peter M.M.G. Akkermans
  • Note on the human skeletal remains / Nico Aten
  • The animal remains, a preliminary account / Chiara Cavallo
  • The figurines / Pieter Collet
  • The ground-stone industry / Pieter Collet and Richard H. Spoor
  • The flint and obsidian industries / Lorraine Copeland
  • The seals and sealings / Kim Duistermaat
  • The Halaf period in northern Mesopotamia / Ismail Hijjara
  • The prehistoric pottery / Marie Le Mière and Olivier Nieuwenhuyse
  • Tradition summary, Halafian / Roger J. Matthews and Sarah Berry
  • The Halaf environment and human activities in the Khabur drainage, Syria / Joy McCorriston
  • Yarim Tepe II, the Halaf levels ; Yarim Tepe III, the Halaf levels ; Burial practices of the Halaf culture / N. Ya. Merpert and R.M. Munchaev
  • The other small finds / Richard H. Spoor and Pieter Collet
  • Excavations at Repe Gawra / Arthur J. Tobler
  • The excavations, stratigraphy and architecture / Marc Verhoeven and Peter Kranendonk
  • Girikihaciyan, a Halafian site in southeastern Turkey / Patty Jo Watson, Steven A. LeBlanc
  • The Halafian culture, a review and synthesis / Patty Jo Watson
  • Sabi Abyad, the geoarchaeology of a complex landscape / Tony J. Wilkinson
  • Bibliography / Norman Yoffee and Jeffery J. Clark
  • The cultivated and wild plants / Willem van Zeist and Willemina Waterbolk-van Rooijen.