Paleorient n.44/1

H. A. Amirkhanov.The Middle Acheulian site Meshhed III in Wadi Douan (Republic of Yemen).... 7-17.F. R. Valla.Sedentism, the «point of non return», and the Natufian issue. An historical perspective....... 19-33.B. Finlayson and C.A. Makarewicz.Contextualising Beidha, Jordan, in the Southern Levantine PPNB: Communal architecture and chronology....................................................... 35-55.E.B. Banning, K. Abu Jayyab, P. Hitc hings, I. Ullah, S. Rhodes, E. Yasui, E. Gibbon, N. Handziuk and A. Glasser.Jawafat Shaban and the Late Neolithic in Wâdî al-Bîr, Northern Jordan........ 57-74.M.D. Price, C.A. Makarewicz and M.S. Chesson.Domestic animal production and consumption at Tall al-Handaquq South (Jordan) in the Early Bronze III................................................................. 75-91.L. Zhang, D. Zhang, X. Wu, G. K. Chen, P. Wang, H. Wang and K. Wang.Ancient mud-brick architecture of Northwest China........................ 93-103.C. Schmidt.Pastoral Nomadism in third millennium BC Eastern Arabia: A view from Al-Zebah in Central Oman.. 105-118.S. Döpper.Towers and ditches in third millennium BC Eastern Arabia: A view from Building II at Bat, Sultanate of Oman..................................................................... 119-131.M. Heydari, F. Desset and M. Vidale.Bronze Age glyptics of Eastern Jazmurian, Iran............................. 133-153.M. Al-Maqdissi et E. Ishaq.Notes d'archéologie levantine LXII. Une statuette des ancêtres à Palmyre (Syrie), datée du deuxième millénaire av. J.-C. (archives R. du Mesnil du Buisson)......... 155-162.