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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [qb] How is he right? I can list a few hundred DIFFERENT ethnic groups, boiled down into about maybe 60 "cultures" JUST for NIGERIA. Do you mean to tell me that MOST of these cultures built in stone? That is a tall task. I would LIKE to beleive it, but the FACTS, especially from the period of history in question, are against it. He still has to PROVE the point, not talk around it. Maybe we should take this to a new thread, since I REALLY would LIKE to dig into this deeper. [/qb][/QUOTE]Of course not all Nigerians, but most Nigerian ethnic groups are descended from the ancient Nok culture which first used iron. And the Nok as well as many Nigerian groups did employ stone building. It may not have been impressive as Egypt but this still had it nontheless.[/qb][/QUOTE]It is not about whether it is as impressive as Egypt or not. All I said was that in Egypt, you can SEE the daily life of ancient Egypt carved in stone, so it makes it EASIER for us TODAY get a glimpse of the daily life and culture of ancient Egypt. The fact MOST other African cultures did not do the same thing is not a BAD thing, just makes it a little harder to uncover the data about daily life and culture for these groups. When I made my statement, I made it based on NOT JUST the BIG groups we all know about, but ALL groups of varying sizes in Africa. I need to look at this further. There is too much information to dig through. My point is that it depends on how you define a culture or distinct ethnic group. Then you have to go back in time and determine whether the same groups existed or there were more. It is easy to SAY that most of the groups in Nigeria descended from the Nok, but that does not mean that they all built in stone either. In fact, many people say that one characteristic of culture in Africa is that many groups remained in small clans or villages, self sufficient and able to use the environment as part of their protection against enemies. Indeed THIS is why we need MORE archaeology on Africa. If we only focus on groups in Africa with maybe a Million or more, we are bypassing maybe hundreds of smaller groups that may only have numbered in the tens or hundreds of thousands. For each of those, you would have to track down and do the research on their origins and histories. Quite a lot of work indeed. On the other hand many of the larger groups may have absorbed smaller groups as time went on. Definitely not an easy task to unravel. I beleive that there are MORE cultures in Africa than the major groups we always here about like the Hausa, Yoruba, Dinka, Nuer, Nuba, Tuareg, etc. Whether other Africans built in stone or not, it should not be interpereted as a qualitative observation. The fact that MOST African cultures did not leave a record in stone in of daily life and cultural activities is not a bad thing. It just makes the process of determining such a little more difficult, due to the nature of the materials involved. [QUOTE] t should be noted, before going further, that many West African peoples did not choose the path of state formation (often said to be the path of 'civilizational development'), but instead created political systems based on elaborate kinship models that coupled local autonomy and wider networks to create viable political orders. It must be noted that in West Africa, even comparatively small communities could maintain their political independence by taking advantage of forest environments to shelter themselves from attack or takeover by more powerful neighbors. Little material evidence is available to scholars working to reconstruct this era of West African prehistory, because so little archeological work has been done. However, what is known about changes in material culture and something of their implications for social change or artistic development can be briefly summarized for those areas where archaeologists have been at work. The principal ethno-linguistic groups whose material cultures are under discussion below. [/QUOTE]from http://www.homestead.com/wysinger/africanhistory.html [/QB][/QUOTE]
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