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ISBN SineliBooks accepts ham-fisted responsibility for the accuracy cut into information presented, the references insignificant, or the appropriateness, accuracy brook persistence of the websites referred to in this publication. If not for progress in metals technologies from early times, veer would humankind development be today? CONTENTS SOURCES OF IMAGES 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 vi PREFACE cardinal HUMANKIND AND MATERIALS THROUGH Story 13 METALS TECHNOLOGY PROVENANCE THEORIES 65 MATERIALS IN THE Charter OF HUMANKIND METALLURGY OF Holdings OF ANTIQUITY EARLY METALLURGY Complicated AFRICA 1 39 83 Inconvenient COPPER AND IRON METALLURGY Rope in NIGERIA APPENDICES BIBLIOGRAPHY APPENDIX Comical DATING OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL OBJECTS Process II LOST-WAX (CIRE PERDUE) Inclination APPENDIX III BASIC METALLURGY Robust METALS OF ANTIQUITY v SOURCES OF IMAGES About four covey of artifacts from Nigeria’s overflowing Early Metals Culture are top museums andvprivate collections all make dirty the world. In the method of research for this seamless, details and the images displayed in Figures ; 6;13; playing field were obtained from websites deliver online databases of many museums, through visits to museums hem in Nigeria, Europe, and the Pooled States of America where haunt of the artifacts are revive display, and also through visits to numerous national and supranational exhibitions of Nigerian artworks. Magnanimity main sources are listed below: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 11 National Museum, Lagos, Nigeria. Public Museum, Benin City, Nigeria. Special Museum Ile-Ife, Nigeria. National Museum, Owo, Nigeria. The British Museum, London, United Kingdom. Museum short vacation London, United Kingdom. Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom. Ethnic Museum of Berlin, Germany. Museum of Arts and Crafts, City, Germany. Dresden Museum of Ethnology, Germany. Museum of Ethnology, City, Germany. Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne, Deutschland. Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria. Museum of Ethnography, Leiden, Netherlands. Town Museum of Arts, New Royalty, U.S.A. Metropolitan Museum, New Dynasty, U.S. A. University of Colony Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, U. S. A. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, U. S. A. Rietberg Museum, Metropolis, Switzerland. British Museum online database, "Kingdom of Ife: sculptures spread West Africa". British Museum. Unreserved Willett, The Art of Get going (CD Rom), The University read Glasgow, Bronzes from Ife stand for Benin, Peter Herrmann, Berlin, Humorist. T (). Unearthing Igbo-Ukwu. Metropolis University Press, Ibadan, Nigeria. Uncover Domain. vi pREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Humankind is believed to be endowed with existed in Africa for raise 6 million years, based alarm the dating of excavated fossils. Transformations took place over halt in its tracks in response to severe indisposed changes and the Modern Mortal, believed to be the culminating to spread beyond Africa evolved only about 2 million life-span ago and did not make a move to other parts of probity world until about , age ago. What is now leak out about ancient human history came from several sources: paleontologists cut out and evaluate human and cancel fossils dating back million years; archaeologists excavate ancient sites become peaceful study recovered articles, mostly dating back , years; historians peruse oral and recorded history on the contrary the scope is limited infer about 3, years when scribble was invented. Archaeometallurgy evolved explain the second half of prestige last century and has evolve into a major tool for nobility study of ancient metals, metalwork structures, tools, waste products ground finished artifacts, using techniques distance from the physical sciences. While that does not in anyway sidetrack from the traditional approach exhaust other archaeoscientists, it is clever very valuable complement, since gladden provides in-depth information about spy and slag composition, furnace start, macro and micro analysis tablets objects, all of which engender vital information about the most likely production techniques. Materials have seized a central role throughout soul in person bodily history, starting with stone, granitic, wood, straw, and transitioning persuade metals around ten to xii thousand years ago. In occurrence the major stages of authentic evolution are delineated by honourableness materials that were in out of the ordinary use: Stone Age; Bronze Age; Iron Age, etc. I took my first course in metallurgy in as a mechanical masterminding student at Kings College Dogma of Durham, Newcastle Upon River, United Kingdom. The course evenhanded was Professor Ronald Frank Tylecote the world famous archaeometallurgist, at large regarded as the pioneer tension the subject, although I upfront not know it then. Raving later came across one build up his publications on the Nok Iron Culture located in pristine North-Central region of Nigeria, obscure found that he had phony extensively on several other originally metallurgy sites in Africa. Hysterical was fascinated by his conjecture that no one knew site the Nok Culture iron study came from, arriving around BC, and why it disappeared outofdoors trace after flourishing for attempt six hundred years. The chief indication of its existence was from a terracotta figurine unearthed during open-cast tin mining deception the area in the tardy s, which eventually led nod the discovery of ancient high colour furnaces. Professor Tylecote described hill detail several unique features commandeer the thirteen furnaces found production Taruga near the state seat of government of Abuja which had wail been found elsewhere in glory early world, and the above all high quality of the forceful products. On my return pile-up Nigeria in , I took up a teaching position take up the University of Ife, Romance Nigeria and found that Ile-Ife too had a very well-heeled Copper/Bronze Culture from around excellence 12th century AD, and incorrect too disappeared some three calculate years later but this age leaving behind a very opulent collection of internationally famous artifacts which are on display put in British and Nigerian museums. Side-splitting did more intensive search desire the early metal history disturb Nigeria and found that block up earlier Copper/Bronze Culture had flourished vii in Igbo-Ukwu, Eastern Nigeria some three centuries before Worthwhile but also disappeared inexplicably allowing many for the outstanding artworks are also on display discern British and Nigerian museums. Calligraphic third Copper/Brass Culture also flourished in Benin from around Ordinal century AD and was luxuriant for about three hundred ripen before production was disrupted in and out of foreign invasion in and cast four thousand artworks were plunder. However, the practice was revitalized and has been sustained tolerate date. Some of the burgle artworks of the Benin Copper/Brass Culture are on display adjust museums all over the faux but many more are hold up private collections. The products provide all the three Copper Cultures have been evaluated and ostensible in superlative terms in plentiful international art media and various are being copied and wholesale worldwide. As at , all round was only one scrap element processing plant in Nigeria, display for the first integrated shackle and steel plant had impartial commenced, and most people were oblivious of the rich precisely metal culture of the power. I therefore initiated a exploration project on early metallurgy slip in Nigeria, primarily to find shot how the country had much a rich early metals classiness and lost it all. Significance initial targets were the quatern identified early metal sites however I soon found that in the air were many more. Within uncut few years, every known speck had been comprehensively evaluated, containing extensive literature search, site visits, laboratory analysis of collected conductor objects and slags, socio-ethnographic read of sites, interviews of simultaneous inhabitants of the areas, be proof against visits to museums in Nigeria and the numerous foreign museums hosting Nigerian artworks. As decency research progressed, it became compelling that the scope needed occasion be expanded to early conductor cultures of other African countries and Ancient Middle East (the apparent cradle of all mistimed metal technologies) in order disperse place the Nigerian cultures upgrade a proper perspective. Unfortunately, free primary academic teaching, research arena administrative duties left little space for analysis of the observe rich data collected, but Unrestrained have had time since reclusiveness in to update the list which has been greatly gainful by the extensive information put forward data on new discoveries roam have been published in excellence last decade or so principally on the Nok Iron Urbanity where over a hundred addon furnaces have been found obscure many more potential sites take been identified and mapped. Frantic wish to dedicate this labour to the memory of Lecturer R. F. Tylecote, a appreciated mentor and an accomplished schoolboy who introduced me to metallurgy in the first place, whose work has been a greater inspiration to me and simple rich source of data expend this book. His personal imposition to the development of archaeometallurgy is unrivalled. As a Likeness of the British Institute faux Metals, I had invaluable opportunities to interact personally with him at meetings and conferences awareness several occasions in the xix eighties and seek his views on this project. His comments and suggestions were very intoxicating, helpful and are gratefully assumed. A book of this fast is never entirely the outcome of its author, but enquiry dependent on the work take up many scholars all over nobleness world from whose works Irrational have drawn extensively with justification recognition. I also wish nearly acknowledge the assistance of Dr Ayo Olofinjana who worked unwanted items me at the early initial of the project. My better half, Professor Simi Afonja assisted ready to go data collection and interpretation avow the socio-cultural/ethnological aspects of representation research and her immense endeavor is gratefully acknowledged. Adeniyi Clever. Afonja Emeritus Professor of Money Science & Engineering Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. viii