Contents include: Action on matter: the history of the uniquely African tamper and concave anvil pot-forming technique; Mining the archives: a pottery sequence for Borno, Nigeria; Toward a systematic bead description system: a view from the Lower Falemme, Senegal; Animal exploitation and pottery technology during pastoral times: the evidence from Uan Telocat, Libyan Sahara; The beads of Kissi, Burkina Faso; Chemical analysis of ancient African glass beads: a very preliminary report