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| Title: | Filling a Gap in the Ife-Benin Interaction Field (Thirteenth-Sixteenth Centuries AD): Excavations in Iloyi Settlement, Ijesaland |
| Author: | Ogundiran, Akinwumi O. |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Periodical: | African Archaeological Review |
| Volume: | 19 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Period: | March |
| Pages: | 27-60 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Nigeria |
| Subjects: | archaeology Anthropology and Archaeology |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014417402169 |
| Abstract: | This paper revisits the question of cultural-historical relationships in the Yoruba-Edo region of southwest Nigeria between the 13th and 16th centuries. Excavations conducted in 1997 in Iloyi settlement, northern Ijesaland, provide a new set of data that not only fills a gap in the Ife-Benin interaction sphere but also offers new perspectives on the process of material culture homogenization in the Yoruba-Edo region during the first half of the second millennium. Calibrated radiocarbon dates show that Iloyi was occupied during the 13th-16th centuries AD. Using the stylistic and iconographic characteristics of ceramics and the patterns of burial and sacrificial rituals as evidence, it is demonstrated that Iloyi was a sociopolitical and cultural frontier of Ile-Ife, and that Ijesaland was part of the Ife-Benin cultural corridor. The paper strengthens the earlier suggestions that the development of a kingship institution at Ile-Ife helped to widen the interaction networks in the region, a historical process that culminated in the trend toward regional cultural homogenization between the 13th and 16th centuries. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. |
