A collection of key articles on Syro-Palestinian archaeology of the Bronze and Iron Ages compiled in honor of archaeologist Olga Tufnell, excavator of the biblical city of Lachish, including contributions by Amiran, Callaway, Dever, Stager, and Ussishkin.

Chapter 1 Olga Tufnell-A Biography, R. Henry; Chapter 2 A Bibliography of Olga Tufnell up to 1984, R. Henry; Chapter 3 A Suggestion to see the Copper 'Crowns' of the Judean Desert Treasure as Drums of Stand-Like Altars, Ruth Amiran; Chapter 4 Lachish, Ashkelon and the Camel: A Discussion of its Use in Southern Palestine, R. D. Barnett; Chapter 5 A New Perspective on the Hill Country Settlement of Canaan in Iron Age I, Joseph A. Callaway; Chapter 6 A Middle Age Bronze Pottery Boot from Tel Lachish, Christa Clamer; Chapter 7 A North Syrian Cylinder Seal Style: Evidence of North-South Links with 'Ajjul, Dominique Collon; Chapter 8 Relations between Syria-Palestine and Egypt in the 'Hyksos' Period, William G. Dever; Chapter 9 A Mycenaean Pictorial Krater from Lachish, Level VI, Henry Vronwy, Hankey; Chapter 10 Chocolate-on-White Ware at Pella, J. B. Hennessy; Chapter 11 A Late Cypriote Bronze Age Tomb and its Asiatic Connections, R. S. Merrillees; Chapter 12 Another Palestinian Inscribed Arrowhead, T. C. Mitchell; Chapter 13 The Imitation of Cypriote Wares in Late Bronze Age Palestine, Kay Prag; Chapter 14 A Further Note on the Unique Gold Earring from Tel-Ed-Duweir (Lachish), Michael O'D. Shea, K. R. Maxwell-Hyslop; Chapter 15 The Firstfruits of Civilization, Lawrence E. Stager; Chapter 16 Some Observations on Spearheads in Palestine in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, Jonathan N. Tubb; Chapter 17 A Selection of Scarabs and Scaraboids, A. D. Tushingham; Chapter 18 Level VII and VI at Tel Lachish and the End of the Late Bronze Age in Canaan, David Ussishkin; Chapter 19 Reflections on Methodology in Egypto-Semitic Lexicography, William A. Ward;