Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica 52, 2020

The 52nd volume of the interdisciplinary journal contains five papers dealing with rock analyses of marble armrings and mace heads of the Rössen Culture, whose mineral composition could be determined by a non-destructive method, new excavations at the Middle Bronze Age settlement of Cornesti-Cornet in the Banat region, the rare occurrence of several bronze vessels in Early Medieval inhumations, the genesis of the fortification, historical city centre and citadel at Spandau during the Middle Ages, and the Copernicus satellite programmes for the management, protection, and preservation of cultural monuments. This is followed by the annual reports 2019 on the work of the Museum of Pre- and Protohistory in Berlin, on figures, dates, and facts of the year in the museum, on the work of the German Association of Archaeology [DVA], and the Commission for the Investigation of Collections of Archaeological Finds and Documents in North-Eastern Central Europe [KAFU], and by a report on the museum's research project on Continuity of research and research on continuity - basic investigations on settlement archaeology in the Iron Age Baltic.