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  1. link.springer.com

    Archaeology in Nigeria tends to be more academic in nature and content and it is based in the universities, though there is the National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) empowered to regulate archaeological research in the country and the Directorate of Research at the NCMM responsible for conducting and coordinating of ...
    Author:C. A. FolorunsoPublished:2011
    • Comparative Archaeologies

      Archaeology, as with all of the social sciences, has always been characterized by competing theoretical propositions based on diverse bodies of locally acquired data. In order to fulfill local, regional expectations, different goals have been assigned to the practitioners of Archaeology in different regions. These goals might be entrenched in ...

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  3. archive.archaeology.org

    Nigeria has a reputation for chaos, corruption, and expensive visas that has kept archaeologists away and drastically slowed the pace of research. In 1959, anthropologist George Murdock quipped that for every ton of earth moved by archaeologists on the Nile, a teaspoon is moved on the Niger.
  4. journals.sagepub.com

    To date, ceramic objects remain important in the economic and socio-cultural life of Nigerian peoples. Archaeological and ethnographic studies alike show Nigerians use traditional pottery for cooking and storage; they also play a prominent role in religious ceremonies and rituals. A variety of pottery traditions exist within Nigeria, including ...
    Author:Emeka E. Okonkwo, A. M. IbeanuPublished:2016
  5. ejournals.asuu.org.ng

    Northern Nigeria. History of Archaeology in Nigeria Archaeology as a discipline developed slowly in Nigeria due to its late coming compared to other disciplines in Africa. Western education to the region came with curriculum in disciplines like English, Mathematics, History, etc, but Archaeology came to Nigeria in a rather accidental form.
  6. Historical archaeology is experiencing a surge of interest in West Africa, after decades of relative obscurity. The papers in this volume represent the most recent findings by scholars who are committed to melding written history, oral tradition, and archaeological data into a dynamic understanding of the recent centuries in Nigeria.
  7. academic.oup.com

    Abstract. The chapter provides a brief survey of the major research developments in archaeology, linguistics, and the early history of Nigeria. It focuses on some important cultural areas, such as the northeast around the Lake Chad and the Hausa speaking region, the Niger and Benue valleys in central Nigeria, the southwest with the Yoruba-Edo cultural complex, and the southeast with the ...
  8. academia.edu

    This essay is an analysis of archaeological contributions to the understanding of Nigeria's cultural history between ca. 2000 B.C. and A.D. 1900 focusing on the following themes: the origins of food production; development and transformations in metallurgical traditions; the beginnings of social complexity; and the character of state formation and urbanism.
  9. academia.edu

    The accidental recovery of terracottas assigned to 'Nok traditions' during tin mining in 1928 (Eyo 1980: 4; Folorunsho 2012) led, according to some, to the beginning of professional Nigerian archaeology, a landmark recognised by the convening by the Archaeological Association of Nigeria in 2008 in Zaria of a conference celebrating '80 ...
  10. fulokoja.edu.ng

    Nigeria (Ogundiran, 2002), and also continuing to record some notable successes, especially in the formation of identities for the various nationalities in the country, archaeology is yet to receive the attention it deserves. For clarity, a concise articulation of the achievements recorded by the Nigerian archaeology through
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