Contents include: Guest Editorial - Continuities and changes in southern African archaeology; The social geography of pottery in Botswana as reconstructed by optical petrography; Ochre for the toolmaker: shaping the Still Bay points at Sibudu (Kwa Zulu-Natal, South Africa); Graves from Dahomey: beliefs, ritual and society in ancient Benin; Small size, high value: composition and manufacture of second millennium AD copper-based beads from northern Zimbabwe; Dating the Mapungubwe Hill gold; The cohortes Augustae Cyrenaicae; Review of R. Joussaume. Tuto Fela et les steles du sud de l'Ethiopie; Review of S. di Lernia & D. Zampetti. La Memoria dell Arte. Le pitture rupestri dell Acacus tra passato e futuro; Review of R. Heckendorf. Bubalin und Bovidien in Sudmarokko: Kontext, Klassifikation und Chronologie der Felsbilder im mittleren Draa-Tal; Review of D.J. Mattingly. The Archaeology of Fazzan, Vol. 1 and 2; Review of N. David. Performance and Agency: The DGB Sites of Northern Cameroon