From Jutland to Jordan / Henrik Thrane -- An introduction to the palaeolithic of Syria / Sultan Muhesen -- Cores into tools : a technological device found in the Yabrudian industry of the Levant / Rose L. Solecki -- Footprints in the sediments of Yabroud Rockshelter IV, Syria / Ralph S. Solecki -- Lithic economic systems and early sedentism / Hans Georg K. Gebel -- Campsites of the seasonally mobile in western Iran / Frank Hole -- Ubaid Mesopotamia revisited / Joan Oates -- Messages in stone : the megaliths of the Nebo region in Jordan / Ingolf Thuesen -- The chronology of the Pusht-i Kuh, Luristan : results of the Belgian archaeological expedition in Iran / Ernie Haerinck and Bruno Overlaet -- Elam's backstage / Hans J. Nissen -- The numinous and the immanent : some thoughts on Kurangun and the Rudkhaneh-e Fahliyan / D. T. Potts -- A palace without sealings? / Erik Hallager -- Seleukos Nikator and Syria / Lise Hannestad -- From theatre to temple / Ross Burns -- The Shaikh Zuwaydeh mosaic on the border of Palestine and Egypt / Michele Piccirillo -- Muhammad's letters / Jorgen Baek Simonsen -- Three eastern Islamic leather wallets and three related stone press-moulds in the David collection / Kjeld Von Folsach -- Saone - Sahyun - Qalaat Saladin / Olaf Olsen and Rikke Agnete Olsen -- The architecture of hospitality : a madafah in Northern Jordan / Alison McQuitty -- An Egyptian qa'a in 16th century Damascus : representative halls in late Mamluk and early Ottoman residential architecture in Syria and Lebanon / Stefan Weber -- Illustrations of Islam : reflections on the historical role of Muslim mass media / Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen -- Archaeology and Islamic studies : the development of a relationship / Alan Walmsley.