30 papers presented at the Italian ethno-archaeology conference centred around four themes: 1) Ambiguity of the historical continuity between past, present and future in the forms of social adjustments, with special regard to the transformations of material culture. 2) Documentation and technical analysis of manufacture, production, use and consumption of artefacts still in use in traditional and non-traditional social environments that might have significant repercussions onto the analysis of the archaeological contexts. 3) Ethno-archaeology meant as a study of the relationshipbetween human...