The Nok culture of central Nigeria produced some of the oldest known figurative sculpture in sub-Saharan Africa, terracotta heads and figures dated to roughly the first millennium BC. The first finds came from tin mining on the Jos Plateau, and one head was used as a scarecrow.
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