Introduction : changing perspectives on Africa's pasts / Ann Brower Stahl
Barbarous tribes and unrewarding gyrations? : the changing role of ethnographic imagination in African archaeology / Paul J. Lane
Discord after discard : reconstructing aspects of Oldowan hominin behavior / Thomas Plummer -
Middle and Upper Pleistocene African record for the biological and behavioral origins of modern humans / Curtis W. Marean and Zelalem Assefa
Late Pleistocene archive of life at the coast, Klasies River / H. J. Deacon and Sarah Wurz
Modeling Later Stone Age societies in southern Africa / Pete Mitchell
Holocene "aquatic" adaptations in north tropical Africa / Augustin F. C. Holl
Pastoralism and its consequences / Diane Gifford-Gonzalez
Holocene occupations of the forest and savanna / Joanna Casey
Romance of farming : plant cultivation and domestication in Africa / Katharina Neumann
Metallurgy and its consequences / S. Terry Childs and Eugenia W. Herbert
Bantu problem and African archaeology / Manfred K. H. Eggert
Archaeology of sub-Saharan urbanism : cities and their countrysides / Adria LaViolette and Jeffrey Fleisher
Interaction, marginalization, and the archaeology of the Kalahari / Andrew Reid
Southern Africa and the East African coast / Gilbert Pwiti
Mosaics and interactions : East Africa, 2000 b.p. to the present / Chapurukha M. Kusimba and Sibel B. Kusimba
From pottery groups to ethnic groups in Central Africa / Pierre de Maret
Two thousand years of West African history / Scott MacEachern.