Contents: • Phillip C. Edwards and Emily House: The Third Season of Investigations at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Site of Zahratadh-Dhra’ 2 on the Dead Sea Plain, Jordan • NadavNa’Aman: When and How Did Jerusalem Become a Great City? The Rise of Jerusalem as Judah’s Premier City in the Eighth-Seventh Centuries B. C. E. • Alexander Zukerman, LioraKolska-Horwitz, Justin Lev-Tov, and Aren M. Maier: A Bone of Contention? Iron Age IIA Notched Scapulae from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel • Peter Magee: Beyond the Desert and the Sown: Settlement Intensification in Late Prehistoric Southeastern Arabia • Guy Bar-Oz: Epipaleolithic Subsistence Strategies in the Levant: A Zooarchaeological Perspective (Donald O. Henry) • Itzhaq Beit-Arieh: Archaeology of Sinai: The Ophir Expedition (Russell Adams) • Moshe Dothan and David Ben-Shlomo: Ashdod VI: The Excavations of Areas H and K (1968–1969) (Daniel M. Master) • MatashaMcConchie: Archaeology at the North-East Anatolian Frontier, V: Iron Technology and Iron-making Communities of the First Millennium BC (James Muhly) • Katharina Galor, Jean-Baptiste Humbert, and JurgenZangenberg, eds.: The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Archaeological Interpretations and Debates: Proceedings of a Conference Held at Brown University, November 17–19, 2002 (Stephen Goranson) • Edna Ullmann-Margalit: Out of the Cave: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Dead Sea Scrolls Research (Sidnie White Crawford) • Antonio Sagona, ed.: A View from the Highlands: Archaeological Studies in Honour of Charles Burney (Sharon R. Steadman)