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PART 1: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS: 1. DECONSTRUCTING THE UBAID. Robert A. Carter and Graham Philip 2. LOCAL IDENTITIES AND INTERACTION SPHERES: MODELING REGIONAL VARIATION IN THE UBAID HORIZON. Gil J. Stein 3. MORE THOUGHTS ON THE UBAID PERIOD. Joan Oates 4. THE HALAF-UBAID TRANSITION: A TRANSFORMATION WITHOUT A CENTER? Philip Karsgaard 5. QUESTIONING THE HALAF-UBAID TRANSITION. Stuart Campbell and Alexandra Fletcher 6. THE DEAD HAND OF DEIMEL. McGuire Gibson PART 2: IDENTITY AND MATERIAL CULTURE: 7. PRACTICES OF DAILY LIFE IN FIFTH-MILLENNIUM B.C. IRAN AND MESOPOTAMIA. Susan Pollock 8. FIGURING OUT IDENTITY: THE BODY AND IDENTITY IN THE UBAID. Karina Croucher 9. UBAID HEADSHAPING: NEGOTIATIONS OF IDENTITY THROUGH PHYSICAL APPEARANCE? Kirsi O. Lorentz 10. A SNAKE IN THE GRASS: REASSESSING THE EVER-INTRIGUING OPHIDIAN FIGURINES. Aurelie Daems 11. THE TERM "HAJJI MUHAMMAD": A RE-EVALUATION. Harriet Crawford 12. THE DEVELOPMENT OF WOOL EXPLOITATION IN UBAID-PERIOD SETTLEMENTS OF NORTH MESOPOTAMIA. Hiroshi Sudo 13. UBAID LITHICS REVISITED: THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF UBAID SOCIETY. Elizabeth Healey 14. BUTTRESS-RECESS ARCHITECTURE AND STATUS SYMBOLISM IN THE UBAID PERIOD. Uwe Sievertsen PART 3: COMPARATIVE ANALYSES AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES 15. A MONUMENTAL FAILURE: THE COLLAPSE OF SUSA. Frank Hole 16. UBAID-RELATED-RELATED? THE "BLACK-ON-BUFF" CERAMIC TRADITIONS OF HIGHLAND SOUTHWEST IRAN. Lloyd Weeks, Cameron A. Petrie, and Daniel T. Potts 17. BAKUN-PERIOD SITES IN DARRE-YE BOLA-GHI, FARS. Barbara Helwing and Mojgan Seyedin 18. THE EMERGENCE OF UBAID STYLES AT TELL KURDU: A LOCAL PERSPECTIVE. Rana Ozbal 19. AN ASPECT OF THE UBAID INTRUSION IN THE SYRIAN UPPER EUPHRATES VALLEY. Yayoi Yamazaki 20. THE UBAID IN THE BALIKH VALLEY, NORTHERN SYRIA: BALIKH PERIODS IV-V. Maria Giuseppina Trentin 21. NETWORKS OF INTERREGIONAL INTERACTION DURING MESOPOTAMIA'S UBAID PERIOD. Bradley J. Parker 22. EXPLORING SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS OF THE UBAID COMMUNITIES: A CASE STUDY OF DE?IRMENTEPE IN EASTERN TURKEY. Bekir Gurdil 23. GODEDZOR, A LATE UBAID-RELATED SETTLEMENT IN THE SOUTHERN CAUCASUS. Christine Chataigner, Pavel Avetisyan, Giulio Palumbi, and Hans-Peter Uerpmann