The #Nok Village in #Kaduna State #Nigeria launches visitors into physical romance with the so-much-talked-about culture of the Nok people. The cultures has been known for over 2,500 years. The Nok culture is better appreciated appraising the excavations made by the numerous scholars and research. Terra cotta, heads of animals and man; and weapons of war are abundant on display. The earliest evidence for metalworking was discovered in the area of the Jos plateau in central Nigeria. Near the modern village of Nok, archaeologists found iron tools and weapons and the equipment used for making them. Tests indicated that people living in this area were making simple iron equipment as early as about 500 BC. These people, known today as the Nok Culture, after the modern village where artefacts were first discovered, used small and primitive blast furnaces to smelt iron ore (remove the iron metal from the stoney ore). These were made of clay and held the pieces of iron ore and ...
Comments
Post a Comment