The Wadi Sirhan project: Report on the 2002 archaeological reconnaissance of Wadi Hudruj and Jabal Tharwa, Jordan (A Wasse and G Rollefson); Settlement and landscape development in the Homs Region, Syria. Report on work undertaken during 2001-2003 (G Philip et al); Monastic archaeology in Syria. Excavations at Dayr Mar Elian al-Shariq, Qaryatan: A preliminary report on the 2001, 2002 and 2003 field seasons (E Loosley and N Finneran); Bayt al-Hawwari, a hawsh house in Sabastiya (M H Burgoyne and M Hawari). Research Articles The Early Bronze Age fortifications of Tel Bet Yerah (R Greenberg and Y Paz); The Canaanite village: Social structure of Middle Bronze Age rural communities (A Faust); Byblos vs. Ugarit: The Alalakh seal impression 194 once again (S J Wimmer); A re-examination of the cuboid incense-burning altars from Flinders Petrie's Palestinian excavations at Tell Jemmeh (J Hassell); A Nabatean sanctuary at al-Mujib nature reserve: A preliminary notice (T M Atiat); Coins from Faynan, Jordan (H D Kind et al); Ceramics from the recent excavations near the eastern wall of Rafiqa (Raqqa), Syria (M Milwright); The faunal assemblages and taphonomic signatures of five striped hyena (hyaena hyaena syriaca) dens in the desert of eastern Jordan (B Kuhn). Book Notes