vislabraye:

I am from Nok, and we are not extinct. I live in Port Harcourt and also an indigene of Rivers State. My great grand parents migrated to PH but we still

practise the Nok culture. And incase you don't know we are the ones who invented Nokia.

Make u no crack person ribs oooo

Hmmm.

http://memoiredafrique.com/en/nok/galerie-amis.php

http://katrinschulze..com/2009/08/german-archaeologists-labour-to-solve_21.html

http://forum.afrik.com/index.php?topic=1444.0

http://forum.afrik.com/index.php/topic,1444.15.html

http://www.thefullwiki.org/Nok_culture

References

* Breunig, P. & Rupp, N. (2006). Nichts als Kunst. Archäologische Forschungen zur früheisenzeitlichen Nok-Kultur in Zentral-Nigeria. Forschung Frankfurt 2-3, 73-76.
* Boullier, C.; A. Person; J.-F. Saliège & J. Polet (2001). Bilan chronologique de la culture Nok et nouvelle datations sur des sculptures. Afrique: Archéologie & Arts 2, 9-28.
* Fagg, A. (1972). A preliminary report on an occupation site in the Nok valley, Nigeria: Samun Dukiya, AF/70/1. West African Journal of Archaeology 2, 75-79.
* Fagg, B. (1959). The Nok Culture in prehistory. Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 1 (4), 288-293.
* Fagg, B. (1968). The Nok Culture: Excavations at Taruga. The West African Archaeological Newsletter 10, 27-30.
* Fagg, B. (1969). Recent work in West Africa: new light on the Nok Culture. World Archaeology 1 (1), 41-50.
* Fagg, B., (1990): Nok terracottas. Lagos: National Commission for Museums and Monuments.
* Jemkur, J. (1992). Aspects of the Nok Culture. Zaria.
* Rupp, N.; Ameje, J.; Breunig, P. (2005). New studies on the Nok Culture of Central Nigeria. Journal of African Archaeology 3, 2: 283-290.
* Rupp, N.; Breunig, P.; Kahlheber, S.(2008). Exploring the Nok enigma. Antiquity, Project gallery. Online publication: http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/kahlheber/index.html
* Shaw, T., (1981). The Nok sculptures of Nigeria. Scientific American 244(2): 154-166.
* Tylecote, R. (1975a). The origin of iron smelting in Africa. Westafrican Journal of Archaeology. 5, 1-9.
* Tylecote, R. (1975b). Iron smelting at Taruga, Nigeria. Journal of Historical Metallurgy 9 (2), 49-56.

[img]http://hum.lss.wisc.edu/hjdrewal/Nok2.jpg[/img]

Kneeling Figure

[img]http://hum.lss.wisc.edu/hjdrewal/Nok3.jpg[/img]

Composite (Human/Animal) Figure.

[img]http://hum.lss.wisc.edu/hjdrewal/Nok1.jpg[/img]

The head is almost life-size and was part of a full-length figure. Elaborate hairstyle has buns with holes.

[img]http://hum.lss.wisc.edu/hjdrewal/Nok4.jpg[/img]

Warrior Figure.

All I know is the Nok was the earliest civilization in Nigeria. Also they are the ancestors of Yoruba's & Benin's

[b]"The Nok culture appeared in Nigeria around 1000 B.C. and mysteriously vanished around 500 AD in the region of West Africa. This region lies in Central Nigeria. The culture’s social system is thought to have been highly advanced. The Nok culture was considered to be the earliest sub-Saharan producer of life-sized Terracotta. It is suggested that the society eventually evolved into the later Yoruba Civilization of Ife.[citation needed]

The refinement of this culture is attested to by the image of a Nok dignitary at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The dignitary is portrayed wearing a "shepherds crook" affixed with an elastic material to the right arm ([3], [4]). The dignitary is also portrayed sitting with flared nostrils, and an open mouth suggesting performance. According to some accounts, based on artistic similarities to both early Yoruba art forms and Nok forms, there are connections between them and the contemporary Yoruba Race. Later brass, bronze, soapstone and terracotta sculptures of the Yoruba Ife and Yoruba Esie civilizations show significant similarities with those found at Nok.

Iron use, in smelting and forging for tools, appears in Nok culture in Africa at least by 550 BC and more probably in the middle of the second millennium BC (between 1400 BC and 1600 BC depending on references).[1]"[/b]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nok_culture


[b]"In 1943 clay shards were discovered during tin mining operations on the southern and western slopes of the Jos Plateau. When reconstructed they were found to be representations of human heads and animals. At the time no archaeologists were present in the region and reconstruction work was carried out by art historians. The disturbance caused by the mining operations meant that the finds could not be dated with any accuracy.

Similar discoveries have been made across a large region of the plateau, stretching 500 km east to west and 300 km north to south. Both the terracotta sculptures and the society which made them are known by the name of the village near to which the first discovery was made: Nok.

Since 1943 archaeological studies, especially at two important sites at Taruga and Samun Dukiya, have provided more accurate information. The pottery has been dated, mainly by thermo-luminescence testing and radio-carbon dating, to a period from 500 BCE to 200 CE. In addition to the Nok terracotta sculptures, domestic pottery, stone axes and other tools, and iron implements have been discovered. The Nok Culture spanned the end of the Neolithic (Stone Age) and start of the Iron Age in sub-Saharan Africa.

Archaeological evidence at the two sites suggest that these were permanent settlements, and centres for farming and manufacturing - this is the oldest evidence for an organised society in sub-Saharan Africa.

Iron working, smelting and fabrication of iron tools became widespread in the region form around 350 BCE. Archaeologists disagree whether this was an independent development (methods of smelting may have derived form the use of kilns for firing terracotta) or whether the skill was brought south form the North African coast by traders (records suggest that Phoenician traders were crossing (what is now) the Sahara at that time.

Nok culture terracottas are heralded as the prime evidence of pre-colonial civilization in sub-Saharan Africa, and it is suggested that the society eventually evolved into the later Yoruba kingdom of Ife. Later brass and terracotta sculptures of the Ife and Benin cultures show significant similarities with those found at Nok."[/b]
http://africanhistory.about.com/od/kingdoms/a/NokCulture.htm

Nok sculptured art

http://nokculture.com/


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