Contents include: Editorial; Animal Remains from Medieval Garumele, Niger; New Excavations of Middle Stone Age Deposits at Apollo 11 Rockshelter, Namibia: Stratigraphy, Archaeology, Chronology and Past Environments; Early Pottery in Northern Africa - An Overview; Resolving the Authorship of the Geometric Rock Art of Uganda; Review of J. McNabb & A. Sinclair (eds.). The Cave of Hearths: Makapan Middle Pleistocene Research Project. Field research by Anthony Sinclair and Patrick Quinney, 1996-2001; Review of T. Oestigaard (ed.). Water, Culture and Identity: Comparing Past and Present Traditions in the Nile Basin Region; Review of E.E. Watson. Living Terraces in Ethiopia: Konso, Landscape, Culture and Development; Review of S. Magnavita, L. Kote, P. Breunig & O.A. Ide (eds.). Crossroads / Carrefour Sahel. Cultural and Technological Developments in First Millennium BC/AD West Africa; Review of D. Colton. An Archaeological and Geomorphological Survey of the Luangwa Valley, Zambia; Review of P.R. Schmidt (ed.). Postcolonial Archaeologies in Africa; Review of M. Nami & J. Moser. La grotte d'Ifri n'Ammar. Tome 2. Le Paleolithique Moyen; Books Noted