Foreword to the XVII UISPP Congress Proceedings Series Edition (Luiz Oosterbeek); Networks of trade in raw materials and technological innovations in Prehistory & Protohistory: an archaeometry approach Introduction (Davide Delfino, Paolo Piccardo, Joao Carlos Baptista); Middle Bronze Age metalworking in the cave of Monte Meana (South-western Sardinia, Italy) (Marco Serra, Stefano Naitza, Carla Cannas, and Giacomo Paglietti); Bronze Age silver artifacts from Romania - an archaeo-metallurgical study (Bogdan Constantinescu, Daniela Cristea-Stan and Anca-Diana Popescu); Prehistoric gold metallurgy in Transylvania - an archaeometrical study (Daniela Cristea-Stan and Bogdan Constantinescu); Passage of technologies - an archaeometric case study of iron artifacts of a Scythian Age grave from the Carpathian Basin (B. Torok, A. Gyucha, A. Kovacs, P. Barkoczy, and Gy. Gulyas); An indigenous pottery production strategy in the late Early Bronze Age site of Mursia, Pantelleria, Italy. Perspectives on social complexity and indigenous interaction patterns (Matteo Cantisani); Bronze Age ceramics from Sardinia (Italy) - a technological study (Maria Giuseppina Gradoli); A preliminary archaeometric study of eneolithic anthropomorphic statues from Nurallao (central Sardinia, Italy) (Marco Serra, Valentina Mameli and Carla Cannas); Early Iron Age pottery in south-western Iberia - archaeometry and chronology (Michal Krueger, Dirk Brandherm)