Nok culture was the earliest complex society and culture founded in Nigeria, at the Jos Plateau, named after the town it was discovered. It was discovered in the 1930s during a tin mining excavation. The civilization started around 900 B.C. Nok culture was a transitional culture from the stone age food gathering to iron age food cultivating. Artistic TraditionIron SmeltingAbout 200 A.D, the culture dissapeared. Related Article: Timeline of African History Works Cited Davidson, Basil. Africa History, Themes and Outlines, revised and expanded edition. New York: Simon and Schuster, p. 20, ISBN 0-684-82667-4. Coquery-Vidrovitch, Catherine. The History of African Cities South of the Sahara. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2005, pp. 43-45, ISBN 1-55876-303-1 External Links: |