The Nok Smoking Gun
Volume 3 - Issue 2
Seun Ayoade*
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- Department of Physiology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
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Seun Ayoade, BSc (Hons) University of Ibadan, Independent Researcher, P.O. Box 22325, Nigeria
Received:February 07, 2019; Published: February 15, 2019
DOI: 10.32474/PRJFGS.2019.03.000159
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Introduction
The Nok culture arose in Nigeria in the first millennium BC and
vanished in the first millennium AD. It is remembered for terracotta
figures that bear an uncanny resemblance to the brass and bronze Ife
Yoruba art that arose centuries later. “The Yoruba were the creators
of remarkable bronze and terracotta sculptures that flourished
from the 12th to the 14th century and that were possibly associated
with the more ancient Nok culture (end of the first millennium
BC)” [1]. “West African Nok culture. Terracotta heads characterized
black Africa’s first known sculpture. Civilization from c.a. 500 BC.
Nok culture. Well organized economy and administrative system
in northern and central Nigeria; first people in sub Saharan Africa
to make iron tools and weapons. Influenced neighbors in region”
[2]. “The Yoruba are a people of great antiquity and have a record
of impressive achievements in many fields of human activity. The
Yoruba trace royal genealogies as far back as the 12th century but
higher forms of political and social organizations have existed
among the Yoruba for much longer: it is thought that they may have
developed as early as the first millennium BC, and archaeological
discoveries in the Nok valley and on the island of Jebba on the Niger
substantiate this’ [3].
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