Articles:

• Congratulations on the 80th Anniversary of Professor Henri J. M. Claessen   

Special Section Urbanization, Regional Diversity and the Problem of State-formation in Europe. Guest Editor - Alessandro Guidi

• Guest Editor's Preface  

Participants:

• Guidi, Alessandro
  The Archaeology of Early State in Italy: New Data and Acquisitions  
• Stoddart, Simon K. F.
  Boundaries of the State in Time and Space: Transitions and Tipping Points  
• Cifani, Gabriele
  State Formation and Ethnicities from 8th to 5th Century BC in the Tiberine Valley (Central Italy)  
• Ralston, Ian
  Fragile States in Mid-first Millennium BC Temperate Western Europe? The View from Bourges  

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• Stasko, Daniel J.; Rodrigue, Barry H.
  A Preliminary Look at Big History Today  
• Kradin, Nikolay N.
  Between Khans and Presidents. Anthropology of Politics in Post-Soviet Central Asia  
• Lozny, Ludomir L.
  Cooperation or Competition? Is Collective Action a Viable Way to Build Sustainable Political Regimes?  

Reviews and Essays:

• Khazanov, Anatoly M.
  The Headless State: Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and the Misrepresentation of Nomadic Inner Asia. Review of David Sneath  

Conference Report

• Liu Jian; Guo Zilin
  Early State Formation: A Multi-disciplinary Conversation: A Report of ‘International Symposium on Early State Formation’ Held on November 4–5, 2009, Beijing, China  

In Memoriam

• Duda, Tulin
  Melvin Lawrence Ember (January 13, 1933 – September 27, 2009)  
• Yair, Gad
  Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (September 10, 1923–September 2, 2010)