Papers, in French and English, from a 1986 conference at Emmaus concentrating on Paleolithic, Mousterian and Natufian topics. Five are concerned with paleoenvironments, 2 with geology and chronology, 3 with anthropology: 14 are on prehistoric archaeology.

This journal will fill a large gap in the current repertoire of English-language archaeological journals concerning the Paleolithic and Neolithic of Asia and Europe, as the place to publish site reports and data-based studies. These are at present rarely accepted for publication in the majority of journals, as they prefer to publish general articles or syntheses of original archaeological sequences.