BASOR NUMBER 303 AUGUST 1996

MORDECHAI HAIMAN: Early Bronze Age IV Settlement Pattern of the Negev and Sinai Deserts: View from Small Marginal Temporary Sites . . . 1
YUVAL GOREN: The Southern Levant in the Early Bronze Age IV: The Petrographic Perspective . . . 33
DEIRDRE DEMPSEY: Ostraca and a Seal Impression from Tell Nimrin, Jordan . . . 73

SEYMOUR GITIN, editor: W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem: Project Descriptions of Albright Appointees 1995-1996 . . . 79
NANCY SERWINT, editor: Project Descriptions of CAARI Appointees 1995-1996 . . . 95

RICHARD S. HESS: Amarna Personal Names (Daniel E. Fleming) . . . 97
A. T. REYES: Archaic Cyprus: A Study of the Textual and Archaeological Evidence (Diana Buitron-Oliver) . . . 98
SHIMON DAR: Settlements and Cult Sites on Mount Hermon, Israel: Ituraean Culture in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (James S. Strange) . . . 100
KLAUS BIEBERSTEIN and HANSWULF BLOEDHORN: Jerusalem: Grundzüuge der Baugeschichte vom Chalkolithikum bis zur Frühzeit der osmanischen Herrschaft (Robert Schick) . . . 101
MICHAEL O. WISE, NORMAN GOLD, JOHN J. COLLINS, and DENNIS G. PARDEE, editors: Methods of Investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Khirbet Qumran Site: Present Realities and Future Prospects (Sidnie White Crawford) . . . 102