BARBARA S. OTTAWAY: Introduction; Adoption and Development of Metallurgy: SALVADOR ROVIRA: Metallurgy and Society in Prehistoric Spain; RUSSELL B. ADAMS: From Farms to Factories: The Development of Copper Production at Faynan, Southern Jordan, During the Early Bronze Age; RÜDIGER KRAUSE: The Cultural and Chronological Context of the Development of Early Bronze Age Metallurgy in Europe; 3. Metal-Making: EMMA C. WAGER: Mining as Social Process: A Case Study from the Great Orme, North Wales, UK; ELKE NIEDERSCHLAG and ERNST PERNICKA: The Provenance of Early Bronze Age Copper from Northern Bohemia and Central Germany: First Results from Physico-chemical Investigations; Helena Alves: The Panasqueira Mines, Portugal: A Case Study on the Social and Labour Organisation of an Extractive Industry During the Twentieth Century; 4. Metal-Working: JOSTEIN BERGSTØL: Iron Technology and Magic in Iron Age Norway; SARIEL SHALEV and MIRA FREUND: The Archaeology of Islamic Metals and the Anthropology of Traditional Metal Casting in Cairo Today; IRINA ZAITSEVA: Jewellers from Different Regions in the Castle of St Mikhail of Chernigov, Russia; ANA ÁVILA DE MELO, HELENA ALVES and MARIA DE FÁTIMA ARAÚJO: The Bronze Palstave from the Quarta Feira Copper Mine, Central Portugal; 5. Consumption of Metal Objects: JOANNA SOFAER DEREVENSKI and MARIE LOUISE STIG SØRENSEN: Becoming Cultural: Society and the Incorporation of Bronze; SUE D. BRIDGFORD: Bronze and the First Arms Race - Cause, Effect or Coincidence?; BJÖRN MAGNUSSON STAAF: Changes of Use: Transformations of Comprehension.