I – Keynote lecture

Anthony Harding, The Tumulus in European Prehistory: Covering the Body, Housing the Soul

II – Burial mounds: symbolics and myth

Blagoje Govedarica, Die sakrale Symbolik des Kreises: Gedanken zum verborgenen Sinnbild der Hügelbestattungen
Giulio Palumbi, The Arslantepe Royal Tomb and the "Manipulation" of the Kurgan Ideology in Eastern Anatolia at the Beginning of the Third Millennium
Philippe Della Casa, Mythical Voyages and Ancestral Monuments: Tales on Knowledge and Leadership in Prehistoric Europe

III – Landscapes, landmarks and cultural identity

Julio Bendezu-Sarmiento, Réflexion sur l'espace funéraire et la notion de territoire en Asie centrale steppique aux périodes protohistoriques (IIe-Ie millénaires av. J.-C.)
Jozef Bátora, Bestattungen unter Hügeln im Gebiet der mittleren Donau seit Ende des Äneolithikums bis zum Beginn der mittleren Bronzezeit
Mateusz Jaeger, Lukasz Pospieszny, Tumulus Culture Barrows in the Polish Lowlands. The Case of the Cemetery in Smoszew
Jan Turek, Jaroslav Peška, Andrea Matejícková, Visible and Invisible Monuments. Late Eneolithic Burial Mounds in Forested Areas of Central Moravia
Ladislav Šmejda, Burial Mounds in West Bohemia: the Current State of Research
Claudia Sachsse, Burial Mounds in the Baden Culture: Aspects of Local Developments and Outer Impacts
Marko Porcic, Interpreting the Vertical Distribution of Bronze Age Tumuli in the Central Balkans
Vedran Barbaric, Tumulus or Cairn? The Case of the Central Dalmatian Islands
Giulia Codacci-Terlevic, La scoperta della sepoltura a tumulo di Barbariga (Istria, Croazia). Novità e riscontri in relazione ai tumuli dell'età del bronzo rinvenuti nella penisola istriana e nell'Italia nord-orientale
Biba Teržan, Bernhard Hänsel, A Specific Type of Tholos in the northern Adriatic
Hrvoje Potrebica, Burial Mounds in Croatia: Landscapes of Continuity and Transformation
Stavros Oikonomidis, Aristeides Papayiannis, Akis Tsonos, The Emergence and the Architectural Development of the Tumulus Burial Custom in NW Greece (Epirus and the Ionian Islands) and Albania and its Connections to Settlement Organisation
Christina Merkouri, Maria Kouli, The Spatial Distribution and Location of Bronze Age Tumuli in Greece
Yannis Galanakis, Mnemonic Landscapes and Monuments of the Past: Tumuli, Tholos tombs and Landscape Associations in Late Middle Bronze Age and Early Late Bronze Age Messenia (Greece)
Lucia Sarti, Pino Fenu, Valentina Leonini, Fabio Martini, Sara Perusi, The Bell Beaker Tumulus of Via Bruschi in Sesto Fiorentino (Florence, Italy): New Research
Serena Vitri, Alberto Balasso, Giulio Simeoni, Tumuli e strutture abitative presso Flaibano nell'alta pianura friulana (Italia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia): vecchi e nuovi dati
Armando D'Agnolo, Silvia Pettarin, Giovanni Tasca, I tumuli del Friuli occidentale: un aggiornamento delle conoscenze
Paola Càssola Guida, The Early Bronze Age in North Eastern Italy: the Making of a Monumental Landscape
Elisabetta Borgna, Individual Burial and Communal Rites: the Manifold Uses of Monumental Architecture in the North Adriatic Bronze Age

IV – Burial practices, rituals and people

Yuri Yakovlevic Rassamakin, Eneolithic Burial Mounds in the Black Sea Steppe: from the First Burial Symbols to Monumental Ritual Architecture
Stefan Alexandrov, Prehistoric Barrow Graves between the Danube and the Balkan Range: Stratigraphy and Relative Chronology
Janusz Czebreszuk, Marzena Szmyt, Tumuli with Circular Ditch and the Ritual Scenario among Corded Ware Culture Societies on the North European Plain
Frank Falkenstein, The Development of Burial Rites from the Tumulus to the Urnfield Culture in Southern Central Europe
Carol Kacsó, Carola Metzner-Nebelsick, Louis D. Nebelsick, New Work at the Late Bronze Age Tumulus Cemetery of Lapus in Romania
Martin Hristov, The Early Bronze Age Ritual Structures and Necropolis from near the Village of Dubene, Karlovo Region
Kristina Mihovilic, Bernhard Hänsel, Damir Matoševic, Biba Teržan, Burial Mounds of the Bronze Age at Mušego near Monkodonja. Results of the Excavations 2006-2007
Mile Bakovic, The Princely Tumulus Gruda Boljevica Podgorica, Montenegro
Sofia Asouhidou, The Early Bronze Age Burial Mound at Kriaritsi – Sykia (Central Macedonia, Greece)
Maria-Photini Papakonstantinou, Bronze Age Tumuli and Grave Circles in Central Greece: the Current State of Research
Vassilis Aravantinos, Kyriaki Psaraki, Mounds over Dwellings: The Transformation of Domestic Spaces into Community Monuments in EH II Thebes, Greece
Sylvie Müller Celka, Burial Mounds and "Ritual Tumuli" of the Aegean Early Bronze Age
Oliver Dickinson, Why Grave Circles A and B at Mycenae are Very Unlikely to be Burial Tumuli
Kalliopi Sarri, Sofia Voutsaki, The Argos "Tumuli": a Re-examination
Sofia Voutsaki, Anne Ingvarsson-Sundström, Søren Dietz, Tumuli and Social Status: a Re-examination of the Asine Tumulus
Jörg Rambach, Die Ausgrabung von zwei Mittelhelladisch I-zeitlichen Grabtumuli in der Flur Kastroulia bei Ellinika (Alt-Thouria) in Messenien
Giulia Recchia, Burial Mounds and "specchie" in Apulia during the Bronze Age: Local Developments and Transadriatic Connections
Francesca Radina, Un impianto dell'età del bronzo nell'Alta Murgia pugliese: il recinto e il tumulo del sito di Le Chianche (Minervino Murge, Bari)
Elisabetta Onnis, The Torre S. Sabina Tumulus (Brindisi, Italy) in the Context of Transmarine Relations during the 14th c. B.C.
Elodia Bianchin Citton, Claudio Balista, I tumuli funerari dell'età del Rame di Sovizzo-località S. Daniele (Vicenza): aspetti costruttivi, cronologici e cultuali
Lorenza Endrizzi, Elisabetta Mottes, Franco Nicolis, Nicola Degasperi, New Evidence of Ancestral Landscape in Trentino in the Copper and Bronze Ages: the Ritual Sites of Cles-Campi Neri and La Vela di Trento
Elisabetta Mottes, Michele Bassetti, Elena Silvestri, The Bronze Age Tumuli of Gardolo di Mezzo (Trento, Italy) in the Adige Valley

V – Diffusionism under examination

Volker Heyd, Yamnaya Groups and Tumuli west of the Black Sea
Janusz Czebreszuk, Lukasz Pospieszny, The Oldest Round Barrows of the European Lowlands
Krassimir Leshtakov, Bronze Age Mortuary Practices in Thrace: A prelude to Studying the Long-term Tradition
Fanouria Dakoronia, The Marmara Tumuli: their Contribution to Greek Protohistory
Georgios Styl. Korres, Middle Helladic Tumuli in Messenia. Ethnological Conclusions
Alberto Cazzella, The (Possible) Tursi Tumulus Burial near Matera and the Relationships between Southern Italy and the Aegean-Balkan Area in the First Half of the 3rd Millennium B.C.