BASOR NUMBER 306, May 1997

TIMOTHY P. HARRISON: Shifting Patterns of Settlement in the Highlands of Central Jordan During the Early Bronze Age . . . . . 1
SHAWN O'BRYHIM: The Sphere-Bearing Anthropomorphic Figurines of Amathus . . . . . 39
WILLIAM D. COULSON , MARGARET S. MOOK, JAMES W. REHARD AND V. R. GRACE: Stamped Amphora Handles from Tel Beersheba . . . . . 47
FRANK MOORE CROSS AND DONALD PARRY: A Preliminary Edition of a Fragment of 4QSamb (4Q52) . . . . . 63
ANDREA BERLIN: From Monarchy to Markets: The Phoenicians in Hellenistic Palestine . . . . . 75

CHRISTINE CHATAIGNER: La Transcaucasie en Néolithique au Chalcolithique (Christopher Edens) . . . . . 89
THEODORE HIEBERT: The Yahwist's Landscape: Nature and Religion in Early Israel (John Van Seters) . . . . . 91
ITZHAK ESHEL AND KAY PRAG: Excavations by K. M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961-1967 (Jeffrey Blakely) . . . . . 92
CRYSTAL-M. BENNETT AND PIOTR BIENKOWSKI: Excavations at Tawilan in Southern Jordan (Larry G. Herr) . . . . . 94