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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | New Studies on the Nok Culture of Central Nigeria |
Authors: | Rupp, Nicole Ameje, James Breunig, Peter |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | Journal of African Archaeology |
Volume: | 3 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 283-290 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | archaeology prehistory sculpture Anthropology and Archaeology History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/43135381 |
Abstract: | Around the middle of the 20th century, the first finds of artistic terracotta sculptures depicting animals and humans were encountered in the vicinity of the village of Nok in central Nigeria. Dating somewhere between roughly 500 BC and AD 200, the Nok culture has produced the oldest figurative sculptures known so far from sub-Saharan Africa. The authors have started preliminary research focused on the settlements of this complex to place the art in an economic, environmental and social context. The first brief survey has proved the existence of Nok settlements of a considerable size, sometimes with impressive architectural remains. Nok culture deserves intensive archaeological study and this with some urgency, because commercial diggings affect one intact site after the other. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [ASC Leiden abstract] |