Introduction: The Baltic in the Bronze Age worldDaniela Hofmann, Frank Nikulka, Robert Schumann OBJECTS Shared symbols and values. On Nordic disc pins and deposition practices in the eastern BalticUwe Sperling and Daniel Sahlén Local perspectives on innovation and dispersal of new technologies in northern foraging societies: lithics, ceramics and early metallurgy in northern SwedenLars Forsberg Swords and sword-bearers across the Baltic Sea in the Early Bronze AgeJan-Heinrich Bunnefeld The arrowheads of the Tollense Valley. From use-wear analysis to the sequence of violenceHella Harten-Buga; Birte Meller; Thomas Terberger; Frank Nikulka; Detlef Jantzen; Jörg Orschiedt Craftspeople in the Late Bronze Age: bone and antler working at fortified settlements in the eastern Baltic regionHeidi Luik Hoards, metallurgy and points. Proposal of an analytical tool for describing hoards with components related to metalworkingMarcin Maciejewski and Kamil Nowak "Kannelurensteine" -- balance weights of the Bronze Age?Nicola Ialongo and Lorenz Rahmstorf From the seaside to the inland. Comparing Late Bronze Age pottery production and styles in the eastern BalticVanda Visocka, Vytenis Podenas, Uwe Sperling SITES, REGIONS AND LANDSCAPES Settlement patterns in the Bronze Age western Baltic - comparisons at different regional scalesJutta Kneisel, Stefanie Schaefer-Di Maida, Ingo Feeser The emergence of fortified settlements in Bronze Age Lithuania: a new modelAlgimantas Merkevicius Interpreting Bronze and Iron Age enclosed spaces, fortifications and boundaries in the western BalticJutta Kneisel, Inge Beilke-Voigt, Oliver Nakoinz Stone Age-Early Metal Period transition in the southern Finnish lake district: incipient forest grazing and temporary burning practicesKerkko Nordqvist, Teija Alenius and Chiara Molinari The Bronze Age culture in Finland from the perspective of the 2020sMika Lavento The Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age transition in the lower Oder and the Oder lagoon region from settlement and environmental perspectivesKatarzyna slusarska CONNECTIONS Peripheral or non-peripheral? The "world view" of the Bronze Age people in the eastern BalticAgne civilyte Bronze Age globalisation in numbers: volumes of trade and its organisationKristian Kristiansen Bloody warriors? The Tollense valley conflict and its relation to the Baltic Sea regionDetlef Jantzen and Gundula Lidke Bronze Age cultural changes, population movements, and the formation of the Proto-Finnic ethnosValter Lang Baltic stone ships. Monuments of a "maritory" in Late Bronze Age northern EuropeJoakim Wehlin.