Conté: Preface / Josep Manuel Rueda i Torres -- Introduction / Anna Gómez-Bach, Jörg Becker, Miquel Molist -- Part I: EXISTING TOOLS FOR COMPREHENSIVE COMPARISIONS. 1. The Morphology Of Halafian Painted Pottery From Yarim Tepe II, And The Process Of Ubaidian Acculturation / Shahmardan Amirov -- 2. Neolithic Pottery With Horizontal Applied Bands From Tell El-Kerkh, The Rouj Basin / Takahiro Odaka -- 3. Investigation Into The Preservation Of Lipids In Pottery Samples From Tell Halula (Syria) Using The Acidified Methanol Extraction And GC-MS / Adrià Breu, Anna Gómez-Bach, Carl Heron, J. M. Faura, Miquel Molist -- 4. In The Shahrizor. Reassessing The Halaf Ceramic Traditions of Iraqi Kurdistan / Olivier Nieuwenhuyse -- 5. A New Method For Studying Pottery? Exploring The Scanner Technology / Christophe Moulhérat, Béatrice Robert, Catherine Breniquet and Aymeric Beau -- Part II: HOW CROSSING CHRONOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCES USING POTS. 6. Time And Technological Transfer In Proto-Halaf and Halaf Sequences At Chagar Bazar (Khabur Valley, Syria) / Anna Gómez-Bach, Walter Cruells -- 7. A Short Note On Prehistoric Pottery From Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat) / Claudia Beuger -- 8. Neolithic Pottery From Tell Nader (Erbil) / Claudia Beuger, Konstantinos Kopanias -- 9. The Cooking Pot In Perspective: The Case Of Sixth Millennium Tell Kurdu / Rana Özbal. Part III: MANUFACTURE AND TECHNIQUES. 10. At The Periphery Of The Oikoumene: The Halaf And Ubaid 'Bichrome Ware' Tradition In The Levant / Eva Gabrieli -- 11. Local Matters: Pottery Production at Tell Halaf and Tell Tawila / Jörg Becker, Kirsten Drüppel, Markus Helfert -- 12. Red ware: Characterizing A Pottery Production At Tell Halula At Mid-Sixth Millennium Cal BC / Anna Gómez-Bach, Xavier Clop, Miquel Molist -- 13. Technological Approach To Ceramic Manufacture In The Pre-Halaf In Tell Halula (Syria) / Silvia Calvo, Anna Gómez-Bach, J. Miquel Faura, Miquel Molist -- 14. Decorative Techniques On Pottery At Tell Halula (Euphrates Valley, Syria) In The 7th Millennium Cal BC. Contribution Of An Experimental Method / Adonis Wardeh, Anna Gómez-Bach; Miquel Molist -- Part IV: NETWORKS AND IDENTITIES. 15. The Creative Centuries: Diversity And Innovation In Iranian Neolithic Ceramics / Frank Hole -- 16. Why Pots Eat Their Mother? A General Overview On The Near Eastern Late Neolithic Anthropomorphic Pottery / Catherine Breniquet, Béatrice Robert -- 17. The First Halaf Painted Fine Ware From The Tigris Valley In Turkey / Mücella Erdalkiran -- 18. Stainers: Observations On A Distinct Type Of Neolithic And Chalcolithic Pottery In The Chabur Valley (Northeastern Syria) / Anna Hanzelková, Maximilian Wilding -- 19. VII Millennium Pottery Sequence At Tell Halula: New Lights Focused On Stratigraphical And Chronological Aspects Of Sector 30 / J. Miquel Faura, Miquel Molist.