book chapter
Nigeria: its archaeology and early history
Thames and Hudson • London • Published In 1978 • Pages: 216
By: Shaw, Thurstan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Information sources listed in other works
- Ceramic technology
- Metallurgy
- Visual arts
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- West African Iron Age
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2300-1700 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- Thurstan Shaw
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-208) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78315960
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Iron Age--Africa