Nok Film: The Story of an Ironsmith From The Nok Culture.
An excavation site, near the village of Taruga in Nigeria, revealed something nobody was expecting: iron furnaces. Archaeologists found 13 furnaces and terracotta figurines were in such close association—inside the furnaces and around them—that he postulated the terracottas were objects of worship to aid blacksmithing and smelting.
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