Despite its prominence in the landscape, the South-Western Romanian tell site at Uivar, distr. Timiş, was only discovered in the 1990s. It is situated in the Banat Lowlands at the River Timişaţ some 40 km from Timişoara, close to the Serbian border. Excavations were carried out between 1999 and 2009 and revealed a Middle to Late Neolithic occupation of the Vinča and Banat Cultures with rectangular post buildings with wattle-and-daub walls partly decorated by colour and applications [ca. 5250-4550 B.C.]. Of the four Neolithic settlement phases [5-2], phase 4b featured the most important architectural remains with a large building of five rooms in the ground floor and three in an upper storey and a potential altar. The tell had a defensive system with an internal ditch of 1.8 km and an external ditch of 4.2 km in length. The present first volume on topics such as stratigraphy, excavation, geophysics, features, dating, and fortifications will be followed by another two on small finds, bioarchaeology and palaeoenvironment, typo-chronology, and house architecture. More recent remains at Uivar belong to the Bronze and Iron Ages and to Medieval and Early Modern times.