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Nok Culture

Iron Age culture of central Nigeria known for large hollow terracotta figures and early sub-Saharan iron smelting.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1,500 BCE mainstream
  Nok culture emerges on the Jos Plateau source
• 550 BCE mainstream
  iron metallurgy attested (furnaces and slag at Taruga) source
• 1 BCE mainstream
  terracotta tradition fades around the turn of the era source

Where

9.5000° N, 8.0000° E

Sources

• https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-022-00902-0
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nok_culture

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