The pre-Corded Ware horizon in central Europe and why it matters – an introduction to the volume Daniela Hofmann, Doris Mischka and Silviane Scharl The times they are a-changin’. The Final Copper Age between the eastern Carpathians and the Don river Elke Kaiser The arrival of the Corded Ware in eastern Switzerland. A settlement archaeological view Niels Bleicher Pots without plots? Danubian and other non-local finds in Horgen cultural contexts of the thirty-second century BC and beyond at Lake Constance and in Upper Swabia Joachim Köninger The time of the cord rollers. Textile-roughened pottery of the early third millennium BC and cultural transmission networks from a south-western German perspective Philipp Gleich Decades of drought in the twenty-eighth century BC and its effects on settlement and culture Joachim Pechtl and Alexander Land In the middle of nowhere – Burgerroth and the Early Final Neolithic in Franconia Thomas Link Networks at the turn of the millennium — the situation in northern Bavaria Martin Nadler Long barrows, causewayed enclosures and the long term spiritual continuity in ritual landscape around Mount Říp in Bohemia (Czech Republic) Jan Turek, Petr Krištuf and Ondřej Švejcar The third millennium BC in the German lower mountain ranges: Are social ties falling apart? Clara Drummer Lithics, Lousberg axes and no settlements. In search of the late fourth millennium BC in the Lower Rhine area Silviane Scharl and Ingrid Koch In varietate concordia — united in diversity. Battle axes, coarse ware pottery and burial rituals during the Late Neolithic of western and central Europe and their meaning for the deconstruction of Final Neolithic narratives Sebastian Schultrich Continuation and change in settlement of the Polish Lowland in the period 3300–2700 BC Marzena Szmyt Societal rise, dissolution and diversity: from Funnel Beaker (TRB) societies to Single Grave groups on the North European Plain (c. 3300–2700 BC) Jan Piet Brozio Global transformation? Globular Amphora sedentary pastoralists 3200–2700 BC Johannes Müller Parallel societies: evidence for the co-existence of Late Funnel Beaker West and Early Corded Ware communities Quentin P.J. Bourgeois, Erik J. Kroon and S. Louise Olerud Same old, same old? Fisher-hunter-gatherer graves, burials and mortuary practices in the late fourth and early third millennium BC northern and eastern Baltic Sea region Marja Ahola