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When studying ancient civilizations, it is often difficult for scholars to pinpoint the exact years of their existence, but regarding the Nok culture of Africa, scholars estimate that it lasted from approximately 800 BCE to 200 CE. The Nok possessed impressive metallurgical skills, specifically in ...
Nok artifacts included nearly life-sized sculptures of animals and people made of terra cotta, which is clay baked in an oven. The ancient Nok constructed furnaces to smelt clay and iron ore at a very high temperature. Iron is very malleable, which means it can be reshaped into weapons and...
SOURCE MATERIAL FOR PRECOLONIAL AFRO-EUROPEAN TRADE A Danish Jew in West Africa: Wulff Joseph Wulff: Biography and Letters 1836–1842. Edited by SELENA AXELROD WINSNES. Trondheim Studies in History No. 46, African Series No. 6. Trondheim: Faculty of Arts, Norwegian University of Science and ...
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