Papers from the 'A New Dawn for the Dark Age? Shifting Paradigms in Mediterranean Iron Age Chronology' session (C53) held at the XV UISPP World Congress, September 2006. Contents: 1) Western challenges to East Mediterranean chronological frameworks (Francisco J. Núñez Calvo); 2) Dark Age pottery from southern Aeolis (Kaan Iren); 3) The beginning of the Iron Age in Thrace: archaeological evidence and questions of chronology (Elena Bozhinova); 4) Steps towards a revised chronology of Greek Geometric pottery by Martin Trachsel; 5) Italian metalwork of the 11th-9th centuries BC and the absolute chronology of the Dark Age Mediterranean (Christopher Pare); 6) The Iron Age in the Mediterranean: recent radiocarbon research at the University of Groningen (Albert J. Nijboer and Hans van der Plicht); 7) Relative and absolute chronology of Latium vetus from the Bronze Age to the transition to the Orientalizing period (Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri and Anna De Santis); 8) The chronology of the Late Bronze Age in western Iberia and the beginning of the Phoenician colonization in the western Mediterranean (Mariano Torres Ortiz); 9) Greek and Phoenician potsherds between East and West: a chronological dilemma? (Dirk Brandherm). Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) / Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006)