| Algaze, Guillermo | Kurban Hröyük and the Late Chalcolithic Period in the northwest Mesopotamian periphery | 1986 |
| Dittmann, Reinhard | Susa in the Proto-Elamite Period and annotations on the painted pottery of Proto-Elamite Khuzestan | 1986 |
| Finkbeiner, Uwe | Uruk-Warka | 1986 |
| Killick, R. G. | The Eski Mosul region | 1986 |
| Matthews, Roger | Defining the style of the period | 1992 |
| Matthews, Roger | Secrets of the dark mound | 2002 |
| Moon, Jane | The Gamdat Nasr sounding at Abu Salabikh | 1986 |
| Moon, Jane | The Lower Diyala and the Hamrin Basin | 1986 |
| Nissen, Hans Jörg | The development of writing and of glyptic art | 1986 |
| Nissen, Hans Jörg | Final discussion | 1986 |
| Oates, Joan | Tell Brak | 1986 |
| Peregrine, Peter N. (Peter Neal) | Tradition summary | 2009 |
| Postgate, J. N. | The transition from Uruk to Early Dynastic | 1986 |
| Potts, Daniel T. | Eastern Arabia and the Oman Peninsula during the late fourth and early third millennium B.C. | 1986 |
| Potts, Daniel T. | A Contribution to the history of the term 'Gamdat Nasr' | 1986 |
| Wilson, Karen L. | Nippur | 1986 |
| Young, T. Cuyler (Theodore Cuyler) | Godin Tepe Period and central western Iran at the end of the fourth millennium | 1986 |
