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ISSN: 2638-6062

Peer Reviewed Journal of Forensic & Genetic Sciences

Mini Review(ISSN: 2638-6062)

The Nok Smoking Gun

Volume 3 - Issue 2

Seun Ayoade*

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    • Department of Physiology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

    *Corresponding author: 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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