Contents include: Editorial; On the Iron Front: New Evidence from North-Central Africa; On Evidence, Ideas and Fantasy: The Origins of Iron in Sub-Saharan Africa. Thoughts on E. Zangato & A.F.C. Holl's On the Iron Front; New Paradigms for Old Iron: Thoughts on E. Zangato & A.F.C. Holl's On the Iron Front; Too Old? Remarks on New Evidence of Iron Working in North-Central Africa; Thoughts on E. Zangato & A.F.C. Holl's On the Iron Front; An Archaeological Survey of the Tropical Highlands of Kafa, Southwestern Ethiopia; Isotopic Evidence for the Antiquity of Cattle-Based Pastoralism in Southernmost Africa; Pre-Colonial Herding Strategies in the Shashe-Limpopo Basin, Southern Africa, Based on Strontium Isotope Analysis of Domestic Fauna; Seriation chronologique de la ceramique megalithique senegambienne (Senegal, Gambie), 700 cal BC - 1700 cal AD; Review of A.C. Dawson (ed.). Shrines in Africa: History, Politics, and Society; Review of T. Falola & A. Usman (eds.). Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa; Review of K. Yoshida & J. Mack (eds.). Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Africa: Crisis or Renaissance?; Review of D.W. Phillipson. Ancient Churches of Ethiopia; Review of L. Torok. Between Two Worlds: The Frontier Region Between Ancient Nubia and Egypt 3700 BC - AD 500; Review of A. Saenz de Buruaga. Mendebaldeko Saharko Tirisen kultura-rigana ezagutzeko ekarpena. Arkeologia onderearen ekarpena. Contribucion al conocimiento del pasado cultural del Tiris. Sahara occidental. Inventario del patrimonio arqueologico; Review of N. Finneran. The Archaeology of Ethiopia