This volume includes diverse set of papers presented in the 3rd congress held in Barcelona dedicated to researchers, including postgraduate students, in the early-stages of their careers who are involved in a number of different disciplinary areas in the study of the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean. The general aim of the conferences is to encourage discussion of new topics and to promote the exchange of ideas, data and scientific information among students and scholars of many different specialties - archaeology, prehistory, history, anthropology, archaeobiology an philology.