ForewordGabriele Gattiglia (University of Pisa)I. THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES IN THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF QUARRIES AND ROCK-CUT SITESSavoir-faire and Technical Environment: Rethinking the Emergence of Rock-cut Tombs in the Neolithic MediterraneanMarie-Elise Porqueddu (The School of Advanced Hispanic and Iberian Studies, Casa de Velázquez)What to Expect when you're Documenting and Excavating a Roman Quarry - Monte del Vescovo, Istria, CroatiaKatarina Sprem (Juraj Dobrila University of Pula)Theorising Ancient Quarries: How Far Have We Come?Christopher J. Lyes (School of Archaeology, University of Oxford)When Quarry Waste Explains Tool MarksDaniel Morleghem (Citeres-LAT, CNRS and University of Tours)The Hand, the Stone and the Mind: Exploring the Agency of Rocks in Quarrying TechniquesClaudia Sciuto (University of Pisa)II. CARVED SITES AND CARVED LANDSCAPESHow do Rock-cut Architectures Interact with the Landscape? The Example of Prehistoric Rock-cut Tombs in Ossi, Sardinia (Italy)Guillaume Robin (University of Edinburgh)A Study of Quartzite (Silicified Sandstone) Quarries in EgyptDaniela Galazzo (Independent researcher)First Reflections on the Structural Analysis of Rock-hewn Caves in Lalibela's Landscape, EthiopiaManon Routhiau (Traces, CNRS and University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès - Orient & Méditerranée, CNRS)Quarrying, Carving and Shaping the Landscape. Stone Working at Dadan, Northwest Arabia, in the First Millennium BCE and BeyondThierry Grégor (University of Poitiers), Jérôme Rohmer (Orient & Méditerranée, CNRS) and Abdulrahman Alsuhaibani (King Saud University/Royal Commission for AlUla)Underground and Open-pit Quarries in Polignano a Mare (Italy): a Preliminary InvestigationGermano Germano' (Scuola Superiore Meridionale in Naples)III. ROCK-CUT SITES AND QUARRIES: CRAFTS AND SOCIETIESThe Left-handed and the Ambidextrous: Methodological Considerations by Way of the Excavation of Rock-cut Churches Over the Long TermAnaïs Lamesa (French Institute for Anatolian Studies in Istanbul)Qualifications of Craftsmen Who Dug Souterrains in France (10th-15th centuries) - Preliminary ResultsLuc Stevens (French Society for Souterrains Studies)The Technique of Extracting Building Stone by "Stone-walling and Back-filling" in Paris: an Innovation of the Late Middle AgesJean-Pierre Gély and Marc Viré+ (LAMOP, CNRS and University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne).