Contents include: Under the rocks: reconsidering the origin of the Kintampo Tradition and the development of food production in the Savanna-Forest/Forest of West Africa; Glass houses under the rocks: a reply to Watson; Straws within a glass house: a reply to Stahl; A preliminary report of excavations in Fewet, Libyan Sahara; Early Holocene seasonal movements between the desert and the Nile Valley. Details from the lithic industry of some Khartoum Variant and some Nabta/Kiseiba sites; The lithic assemblage of the 1975-1976 excavation of the Porc-Epic Cave, Dire-Dawa, Ethiopia. Implications for the East African Middle Stone Age; Culture and technology in the pottery of the medieval Sahel: a preliminary view from the Makarauci valley, Niger; Sociopolitical formation on the Yoruba northern frontier: a report of recent work at Ila-Iyara, Central Nigeria; Remembrance: Ari Siiriainen 16.11.1939 - 9.12.2004; Review of Ann B. Stahl (ed.). African Archaeology: A Critical Introduction; Review of Robert Vernet & Baouba O.M. Naffe. Dictionnaire Archeologique de la Mauritanie; Review of Simon Holdaway & Nicola Stern. A Record in Stone: The Study of Australia's Flaked Stone Artifacts; Review of J.D. Lewis-Williams & D.G. Pearce. San Spirituality. Roots, Expression and Social Consequences; Review of Timothy Insoll. The Archaeology of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa; Review of Graham Connah. Forgotten Africa: An Introduction to its Archaeology