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- Title
EL ORIGEN DE LAS SOCIEDADES COMPLEJAS EN EL ÁFRICA SUBSAHARIANA.
- Authors
Breunig, Peter
- Abstract
This article considers the earliest evidence of complex societies in sub-Saharan Africa. The evidence derives from two archaeological entities located in Nigeria, West Africa: the Gajiganna Culture of the Chad Basin and the Nok Culture of Central Nigeria. Studies of both cultures, carried out by the author's team during the last years, indicate a significant cultural change during the 1st millennium BC. The change concerns social, economic, and technological aspects, described and discussed for each of the two mentioned cases. It is supposed that the change was a nucleus of social complexity that triggered further developments up to the great West African empires emerging from the end of the 1st millennium AD onwards.
- Subjects
NIGERIA; COMPLEX societies; SOCIAL systems; NOK culture; ANTHROPOLOGICAL research; ARCHAEOLOGICAL research; ANTIQUITIES
- Publication
Boletín de Arqueología PUCP, 2007, Issue 11, p353
- ISSN
1029-2004
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18800/boletindearqueologiapucp.200701.013