Early History in Nigeria
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|Early history of Nigeria |
|Early Nigerian history relates to the period of history in Nigeria prior to the common era. Recent archaeological | |
|research has shown[who?] that people were already living in Nigeria (specifically the Iwo-Eleru) as early as 11,000 | |
|BC and perhaps earlier at Ugwuelle-Uturu (Okigwe) in south-eastern Nigeria.[1] Microlithic and ceramic industries |F|
|were developed by savanna pastoralists from at least the 4th millennium BC and were continued by subsequent |r|
|agricultural communities. The Efik/Ibibio/Annang Efik, Ibibio, and Annang people of single ancestor of the coastal |e|
|southeastern Nigeria are known to have lived in the area several thousands of years before Christ. |d|
|Iron Age |r|
|Kainji Dam excavations revealed ironworking by the 2nd century BC. The transition from Neolithic times to the Iron |i|
|Age apparently was achieved without intermediate bronze production. Others suggest the technology moved west from the|c|
|Nile Valley, although the Iron Age in the Niger River valley and the forest region appears to predate the |k|
|introduction of metallurgy in the upper savanna by more than 800 years. |L|
|Nok Culture |o|
|The earliest identified Nigerian culture is the Nok culture that thrived between 500 BC and 200 AD on the Jos Plateau|r|
|in northeastern Nigeria. Information is lacking from the first millennium AD following the Nok ascendancy, but by the|d|
|2nd millennium AD there was active trade from North Africa through the Sahara to the forest with the savanna people |L|
|acting as intermediaries in
|Early history of Nigeria |
|Early Nigerian history relates to the period of history in Nigeria prior to the common era. Recent archaeological | |
|research has shown[who?] that people were already living in Nigeria (specifically the Iwo-Eleru) as early as 11,000 | |
|BC and perhaps earlier at Ugwuelle-Uturu (Okigwe) in south-eastern Nigeria.[1] Microlithic and ceramic industries |F|
|were developed by savanna pastoralists from at least the 4th millennium BC and were continued by subsequent |r|
|agricultural communities. The Efik/Ibibio/Annang Efik, Ibibio, and Annang people of single ancestor of the coastal |e|
|southeastern Nigeria are known to have lived in the area several thousands of years before Christ. |d|
|Iron Age |r|
|Kainji Dam excavations revealed ironworking by the 2nd century BC. The transition from Neolithic times to the Iron |i|
|Age apparently was achieved without intermediate bronze production. Others suggest the technology moved west from the|c|
|Nile Valley, although the Iron Age in the Niger River valley and the forest region appears to predate the |k|
|introduction of metallurgy in the upper savanna by more than 800 years. |L|
|Nok Culture |o|
|The earliest identified Nigerian culture is the Nok culture that thrived between 500 BC and 200 AD on the Jos Plateau|r|
|in northeastern Nigeria. Information is lacking from the first millennium AD following the Nok ascendancy, but by the|d|
|2nd millennium AD there was active trade from North Africa through the Sahara to the forest with the savanna people |L|
|acting as intermediaries in