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ID: 7059190 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7059190			Record Type: administrative

Iwo Eleru (rock shelter)

Coordinates:
Lat: 07 26 30 N degrees minutes			Lat: 7.4410 decimal degrees
Long: 005 07 40 E degrees minutes			Long: 5.1270 decimal degrees

Note: Prehistoric settlement near Akure; one of the most fully excavated archaeological sites of its type in Nigeria; contains evidence of the evolution of material culture as well as the Nok settlement existing at the site from ca. 500 BCE - 200 CE.

Names:

Iwo Eleru (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

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Africa (continent) (P)

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Nigeria (nation) (P)

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Ekiti (state) (P)

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Iwo Eleru (rock shelter) (P)

Place Types:

rock shelter (preferred, C)
archaeological site (C)	............	beginning in 1965
cave dwelling (H)	............	ca. 9000 BCE - 200 CE

Sources and Contributors:

Iwo Eleru..........	[VP Preferred]
....................	Phillipson, African Archaeology (1985) 111
....................	Shaw and Jameson, Dictionary of Archaeology (2002) 314

Subject: .....	[VP]
..................	Allsworth-Jones et al., Archaeological context of the Iwo Eleru cranium, West African Archaeology (2010) 29
..................	Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) In "Nigeria: Nok culture"; accessed 27 July 2010
..................	Shaw and Jameson, Dictionary of Archaeology (2002) 314


Note:
English	..........	[VP]
	..........	Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) In "Nigeria: Nok Culture"; accessed 27 July 2010
	..........	Shaw and Jameson, Dictionary of Archaeology (2002) 314

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