This festschrift contains a foreword by the series editors, a preface, a bibliography of the honoured, 47 papers and a list of authors. The contributions are divided into sections on "Focussed perspectives: seeing and knowledge, knowledge and seeing" with the subsections "Images and a ’sharpened’ gaze" [14 contributions] and "Imagined worlds" [8], "Global historical perspectives: phenomena of mobility" [12] and "Perspectives on knowledge" with the subsections "Time and space - chronology, man, environment" [7] and "History of research" [6]. Specifically, it deals, for example with Palaeolithic cave painting, geomagnetics, cattle use, anthropomorphic grave stelae, pottery, skull cups, torques, riding accidents, finds from China and Russia, Siberian cult sites, the Sarmatians, kurgans, the Iliad, mobility of humans and animals, horses, the origins of falconry, Greek colonisation, nomadism, the Linear Pottery Culture, humans and the environment, ritual landscapes, burial customs of the Jastorf Culture, the beginnings of the Przeworsk Culture, hoards, quivers of the 1st century B.C., the Prussia Collection, and Hermann Parzinger’s significance for archaeological research in Siberia.