The Nok culture is a population whose material remains are named after the Ham village of Nok in southern Kaduna State of Nigeria, where their terracotta sculptures were first discovered in 1928. [1][2] The Nok people and the Gajiganna people may have migrated from the Central Sahara, along with pearl millet and pottery, and diverged prior to ar...

2019年3月27日 · Famous for the distinctive terracotta sculptures of human heads and figures, Nok was the first known culture in West Africa to produce such art and perhaps the first sub-Saharan culture to perfect iron-smelting technology.

Learn more about the Nok civilisation and it's extraordinary artworks. Nok art occupies a prominent place in Nigeria’s art because of its history which dates back to the 2nd-5th centuries...

2024年10月13日 · Flourishing from around 1500 BCE to 1 BCE, the Nok people lived in what is now central Nigeria, specifically in the region of Kaduna State. Their impressive terracotta art, technological advancements, and lasting influence on subsequent West African societies make them a pivotal part of African history.

Nok culture, ancient Iron Age culture that existed on the Benue Plateau of Nigeria between about 500 bce and 200 ce. First discovered in 1928 in the small tin-mining village of Nok, artifacts of similar features were found over an area that stretched about …

2024年2月9日 · The Nok culture was one of the earliest known societies of Western Africa. It existed in modern-day Nigeria from around 500 B.C.E. to 200 C.E. The Nok farmed crops and used iron tools. Historians and archaeologists refer to this culture as the Nok culture because artifacts were first discovered near

2020年1月25日 · 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.

2000年10月1日 · One of the earliest African centers of ironworking and terracotta figure production, the Nok culture remains an enigma. Most Nok sculpture is hollow and coil-built like pottery.

The Nok civilization, an ancient African people, flourished in the southern region of West Africa, encompassing present-day Nigeria, during the Iron Age, spanning from 500 B.C.E. to 200 B.C.E. Archaeological evidence suggests that the Nok culture emerged gradually and …

why Nok art is well known today only for the heads, both male and female, whose hairstyles are particularly detailed and refined. The statues are in fragments because the discoveries are usually made from alluvial mud, in terrain made by the erosion of water. The terracotta statues found there are hidden, rolled, polished, and broken. Rarely are