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Holocene adaptations in West Africaarticle 1978 • Shaw, Thurstan
West African Late Stone Age • Africa > Western Africa
This is an overview of the environment, climate, and lithics for Holocene West Africa. Some subsistence data and a quick review of skeletal remains are also presented. A map usefully lists forty-eight sites, indicating their primary assemblage, and v...Hunters, gatherers and first farmers in West Africaessay 1977 • Shaw, Thurstan
West African Late Stone Age • Africa > Western Africa
This overview of West Africa from the end of the Pleistocene to the Neolithic includes descriptions of topography, climate, flora, fauna, stone tools, and subsistence practices....Nigeriabook chapter 1978 • Shaw, Thurstan
West African Iron Age • Africa > Western Africa
This is largely a description, including photographs, of the terracotta heads from the Nok archaeological sites on the Jos Plateau in Nigeria. Shaw also discusses Nok pottery and metallurgy....Analysis of 'bronzes' from Beninbook chapter 1975 • Shaw, Thurstan
West African Regional Development • Africa > Western Africa
Results are presented for spectrographic analysis of 10 "bronzes" from the excavations at Benin City. The 7 items from Cutting II of the Clerks' Quarters site (dating to the thirteenth century) are all tin bronzes, while the 3 from a horde in Cutting...Excavations at Iwo Eleru, Ondo State, NigeriaBook 1984 • Shaw, Thurstan & Daniels, S. G. H.
West African Late Stone Age • Africa > Western Africa
The Iwo Eleru rock shelter was in use throughout the Holocene, into the early twentieth century. For much of the epoch it was within a forest zone; today it is within savanna. Excavations produced a microlithic assemblage; ground stone axes and ceram...Igbo-UkwuBook 1970 • Shaw, Thurstan & Ibadan, Nigeria. University. Institute Of African Studies
West African Iron Age • Africa > Western Africa
Just before World War II, accidental finds of bronzes were made at Igbo-Ukwu in eastern Nigeria, an area which lies aobut 25 miles southeast of the River Niger at Onitsha.. In the 1960s, this led to the excavation of three sites located there: Igbo I...