Introduction / J. Maran and P.W. Stockhammer -- Words and things: reflections on people's interacton [sic] with the material world / H.P. Hahn -- Magic, materials and matter: understanding different ontologies / C. Gosden -- Material concerns and colonial encounters / P. van Dommelen and M. Rowlands -- Matter of fact: transcultural contacts in the late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean / A.B. Knapp -- Encountering the foreign. (De- )constructing alterity in the archaeologies of the Bronze Age Mediterranean / D. Panagiotopoulos -- Trade goods reproducing merchants? The materiality of Mediterranean late Bronze Age exchange / G.J. van Wijngaarden -- Migrant drinking assemblages in Aegean Bronze Age settings / J.B. Rutter -- Entangled pottery: phenomena of appropriation in the late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean / P.W. Stockhammer -- Can we say, what's behind all those sherds? Ceramic innovations in the Eastern Mediterranean at the end of the second millennium / R. Jung -- Ceremonial feasting equipment, social space and interculturality in post-palatial Tiryns / J. Maran -- From Minoan Crete to Mycenaean Greece and beyond: the dissemination of ritual practices and their material correlates in ceremonial architecture / E. Borgna -- The intercultural transformative capacities or irregularly appropriated goods / S. Sherratt -- Lasting impressions. The appropriation of sealing practices in Minoan Crete / S. Cappel -- Hyperculture, tradition and identity: how to communicate with seals in times of global action. A middle Bronze Age seal impression from Kamid el-Loz / M. Heinz and J. Linke -- The role of the Canaanite population in the Aegean migration to the Southern Levant in the late second millennium BCE / A. Yasur-Landau -- The practical logic of style and memory in early first millennium Levantine ivories / M.H. Feldman -- An introduction to the divine statues of, and the objects belonging to, the gods in Mesopotamia during the Old Babylonian period (c. 2000-1595 BCE) / M. Maggio.