Dec 8, 2016 · Establishing a chronology for the Nok Culture employed two approaches: a comprehensive pottery analysis based on decoration and form elements and a wealth of radiocarbon dates from a large...

Potsherds (pottery shards) are the most abundant archaeological artifacts at Nok sites. Since 2009, excavated pottery has been undergoing systematic analysis with a central aim to try and establish a chronology.

Jan 29, 2025 · Now when it comes to pottery, scholars studied over 400 sherds from 12 different Nok sites. These sherds came from pots that are commonly found at Nok sites and consisted of coarse red wares that were decorated with different incised designs.

Feb 1, 2022 · Teaming up with chemists from the University of Bristol’s Organic Chemistry Unit, the researchers analyzed residue on more than 450 prehistoric pots from the Nok, looking for signs of ancient plant material used as food.

Jan 25, 2020 · Nok art refers to huge human, animal, and other figures made out of terracotta pottery, made by the Nok culture and found throughout Nigeria. The terracottas represent the earliest sculptural art in West Africa and were made between 900 B.C.E. and 0 C.E., concurrent with the earliest evidence of iron smelting in Africa south of the Sahara desert.

Aug 17, 2017 · The combination of stylistic pottery analysis, spatial distribution of sherds, and X-ray analysis allows to clearly distinguish Nok Culture pottery from later pottery traditions. This is ...

May 14, 2021 · Archaeologists from Goethe University in Frankfurt and chemists from the University of Bristol in England have found traces of beeswax in pottery fragments from the Nok culture of central Nigeria that are now the earliest direct evidence of honey collecting on the continent. The findings were published in the journal Nature Communications.

Nok art can be divided into three stylistic categories: early, middle and late Nok. The pottery of the early period, 1500 BCE- 900BCE was characterized by incised lines. These lines cover...

May 27, 2021 · Our recent project research has yielded the first direct chemical evidence for honeybee product exploitation in West Africa. We achieved this result by analysing organic residues of prehistoric...

Oct 30, 2024 · Ancient African civilizations, like the Nok in Nigeria and the Egyptians along the Nile, produced pottery that was both functional and ornate, with designs that evolved over centuries. In these societies, pottery was essential for daily life, used in …