Contents include: First chrono-cultural reference framework for the West African Palaeolithic, new data from Ounjougou, Dogon Counrty, Mali; Tobacco pipes from excavations at the museum site, Jenne, Mali; The ethnohistory and archaeology of warfare in northern Yoruba; Archaeology and the public in Senegal, reflections on doing; The discovery of new rock paintings in the Horn of Africa, the rockshelters of Las Geel, Republic of Somaliland; Shona ethnography and Iron Age burials; Review of D. W. Phillipson. Archaeology in Africa and in Museums, An Inaugural Lecture given in the University of Cambridge 22 October 2002; Review of A. O. Ogundiran. Archaeology and History in Ilare District (Central Yorubaland, Nigeria) 1200-1900 A.D.; and Review of S. B. Kusimba. African Foragers; Environment, Technology, Interactions.