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Igbo-Ukwu

Site of West Africa's earliest known bronze casting, with an elite burial and ritual hoard in what is now southeastern Nigeria.

Dated events and their evidence

• 850 CE mainstream
  lost-wax bronze regalia and burial (radiocarbon ~9th century) source
• 1938 CE mainstream
  first bronzes uncovered by villager Isaiah Anozie source
• 1959 CE mainstream
  Thurstan Shaw's formal excavations of the three sites source

Where

6.0170° N, 7.0170° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo-Ukwu

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