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Nigeria’s Archaeological Heritage

Author(s) -

Emeka E. Okonkwo,

Anselem M. Ibeanu

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

sage open

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.357

H-Index - 32

ISSN - 2158-2440

DOI - 10.1177/2158244016651111

Subject(s) - indigenous , ethnography , production (economics) , archaeology , natural resource , raw material , cultural heritage , mineral resource classification , resource (disambiguation) , natural resource economics , geography , business , political science , economics , geology , computer science , ecology , law , computer network , biology , geochemistry , macroeconomics

People have exploited mineral resources for several reasons rangingfrom the production of metal and ceramic objects to stone and wooden tools. Indigenousextraction and use of mineral resources for production of general goods among othershave continued unabated. In this article, archaeological and ethnographic data were usedto identify extraction methods for some of these raw materials in the past, and thus,examine how failure to manage such resources has adversely affected technological andresource development in Nigeri

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