Table of Contents

I. Western Desert of Egypt and the Sudan Barbara E. Banch and Fekri A. Hassan A stratified sequence from Wadi el-Obeiyd, Farafra: new data on subsistence and chronology of the Egyptian Western Desert Heiko Riemer Regenfeld 96/1 - Great Sand Sea and the question of human settlement on whaleback dunes II. Stone Age of Egypt and the Sudan Louis Chaix, Marline Faure, Claude Guerin and Mathieu Honegger Kaddanarti, a Lower Pleistocene assemblage from Northern Sudan Philip van Peer and Pierre M. Vermeersch The Nubian complex and the dispersal of modern humans in North Africa Jacek Kabacinski and Donatella Usai Preliminary results of the study on Late Palaeolithic chert workshops (Upper Egypt) Friederike Jesse Early Khartoum ceramics in the Wadi Howar (Northwest Sudan) Birgit Keeling New data on the Holocene occupation of the Wadi Howar region Maria C. Gatto The most ancient evidence of the "A-Groups" Culture in Lower Nubia Francis Geus Geomorphology and prehistory of Sai Island (Nubia): report on a current research project Derek A. Welsby South from Kadruka: the Neolithic in the Northern Dongola Reach, Sudan Elena A. A. Garcea A Late Neolithic site near el-Kurru (Sudan) Predynastic and Dynastic Egypt and Nubia Mohammed Adel Mohammed Abd El Moneim Knobbed bowls of the Late Predynastic - Early Dynastic Period Juan J. Castillos Social development in Predynastic Egypt: Matmar, a case study Renee Friedman Regional diversity in the Predynastic pottery of Upper Egyptian settlements Karla Kroeper Corpus of potmarks and inscriptions from the Pre/Early Dynastic cemetery at Minshat Abu Omar (Northeastern Delta, Egypt) Ian Shaw The evidence for amethyst mining in Nubia and Egypt III. Libya Mauro Cremaschi, Savino Di Lernia and Elena A. A. Garcea First chronological indications on the Aterian in the Libyan Sahara IV. Central Africa Samuel Gotilogue Etat de recherches archeologiques en Republique Centrafricaine V. Ethiopia Laurel Phillipson A functional consideration of Gudit scrapers from Aksum