This volume is contains the contributions held at the international symposium in honor of Prof. H.J. Nissen's retirement concerning the topics "Settlement Patterns and the Study of Irrigation in Southern Mesopotamia," "Ecological Determinism," "Political History and Conflict Management," "The Development of Urbanisation and the Uruk Period," "Economy and Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East," "The Neolithic and Theories on the Neolithisation in the Levant and Anatolia," and " Iran between East and West."
