pt. I. From prehistoric times to the Bronze Age -- The Stone Age -- The Natufian Period (10,000-8000 BC) -- The Neolithic Period (8000-4000 BC) -- The Chalcolithic Period (4000-3200 BC) -- pt. II. The Bronze Age -- Canaan in the Bronze Age -- The Early Bronze Age (3200-2200 BC) -- The Middle Bronze Age (2200-1550 BC) -- The Late Bronze Age (1550-122 BC) -- A jeweller's hoard of scrap from Tell el-Ajjul -- Egypt at the time of the 18th Dynasty -- The Aegean World in the Bronze Age -- pt. III. The Israelite and Persian Periods -- The Israelite Period -- The Beth Shemesh hoard -- Archaemenid style -- Phoenician style -- Cypriot style -- pt. IV. The Hellenistic and Roman Periods -- The Hellenistic Period (323-63 BC) -- The Roman Period (63 BC-AD 330) -- Jewellery from the province of Judaea -- Jewellery from a Nabataean cemetery -- pt. V. The Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods.