These conference proceedings contain forewords by the editors and on the meeting as well as 12 academic papers on the Copper Age in Hungary, Slovenia, and Austria. The latter deal with the final phase of the Lengyel Culture in Central Transdanubia, Copper Age settlement remains from Na Plesi near Murska Sobota, Copper Age idols from the Prekmurje region, the relative and absolute chronology of the Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic in continental Slovenia and case studies in Bayesian chronological modelling of the settlements at Gradec pri Mirni and Bukovnica and the cave necropolis at Ajdkovska jama. Other topics are the Neolithic and Aeneolithic finds from Burgberg Hill at Eppenstein, distr. Murtal, an Early Chalcolithic grave of the Lasinja Culture on Bockberg Hill near Wildon, the rock material found there, the Copper Age settlement on a spur at Lenzing-Burgstall near Lake Atter, Upper Austria, the Ljubljana Marshes in the Aeneolithic, Wauberg Hill at Lake Faak and new results on the Copper Age in Carinthia as well as the Schloßberg Hill at Wildon during the Late Copper Age and its significance for research on the Vučedol Culture in the South-Eastern Alps.weiterlesen