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Title:Archeological investigation in the Wushishi Area
Author:Aiyedun, Kolawole D.
Year:1984
Periodical:Nigeria Magazine
Issue:151
Pages:15-29
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:archaeology
settlement patterns
Abstract:This preliminary result of the archaeological investigations in the Wushishi area of the Kaduna valley, Niger State, Nigeria, is with a view to understanding land use and settlement patterns in the area, which would also include the search for evidence for the establishment of cultivation and the inception of iron technology, A first section attempts to place the Wushishi area in its geographical perspective. Section two presents some preliminary tentative results on the reconstruction of subsistence and settlement patterns of the area, based on the analysis of all the cultural materials obtained since archaeological investigation was initiated in the area, - Bibliogr., fig map.
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