Contents include: Editorial; Bead grinders and early Swahili household economy: analysis of an assemblage from Tumbe, Pemba Island, Tanzania, 7th-10th centuries AD; On the early Iron Age in southern Cameroon: the sites of Akonetye; Fishing in the rain: control of rain-making and aquatic resources at a previously undescribed rock art site in Highland Lesotho; Tracing the movements of the Western Desert dwellers: site 11-I-13 in Wadi Karagan, Sudanese Nubia, closely akin to El Ghorab or El Nabta; Urbanism and the archaeological visibility of African complex societies; The oldest textiles from sub-Saharan West Africa: woolen facts from Kissi, Burkina Faso; Review of R. Blench. Archaeology, Language, and the African Past; Review of A. Haour. Rulers, Warriors, Traders, Clerics: The Central Sahel and the North Sea, 800-1500; Review of P.R. Willoughby. The Evolution of Modern Humans in Africa. A Comprehensive Guide; Review of P.M. Vermeersch (ed.). A Holocene Prehistoric Sequence in the Egyptian Red Sea Area: The Tree Shelter; Review of P.R. Schmidt. Historical Archaeology in Africa. Representation, Social Memory, and Oral Traditions