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AN early occupation site was located at Taruga, southeast of Abuja, in Niger Province of Northern Nigeria in November 1960, and fourteen exploratory trenches were dug by me early in January, 1961, for the Federal Department of Antiquities. Figurines characteristic of the Nok style had been found by tin miners in sample pits close by, and many other figurine fragments were afterwards excavated in situ together with decorated pottery, querns, quartz hammerstones, iron slag and quantities of charcoal. Four, and in some places five, distinct layers were observed in a depth of about 4 ft.
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FAGG, B. Radiocarbon Dating of the Nok Culture, Northern Nigeria. Nature 205, 212 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205212a0
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