Pottery-making in parts of Igboland is discussed from an ethnoarchaeological perspective. and Igboland, are recent and date mainly to the period of the coming of the Europeans. Igboland, are not new. Ofomata, A Survey of the Igbo Nation, AFP, 2002; Toyin Falola ed., Igbo History and Society: The … But of greater importance is the question of original homeland of Igbos. Igboland lies in the tropical forest belt of West Africa. Anozie: “Archaeology of Igboland: The Early Prehistory” in G.E.K. In parts of Igbo land, traditional pots not only serve utilitarian functions but also ceremonial, ritual, and status symbols (Ibeanu, 1992, 2006). We return to this later. A number of indigenous institutions which promoted and sustained democratic norms and values existed. The above socio-cultural factors Hence in this study African Study Monographs, 19(1): 35-54, May 1998 35 19-1/3 03.3.28 3:40 PM ページ35 14 Anozie, F.N., ‘Early Iron Technology in Igboland: Llejja and Umundu’, in special Book issue of West African Journal of Archeology, vol.9 1979. It was a home-grown democracy influenced by the people’s culture, history and tradition. Theatre of Igboland in Southern Nigeria”. Antiquity of Igbo origin is important. Corpus ID: 163025850. Igboland, the people evolved a viable democratic culture. Igboland, Nigeria Elochukwu A. Nwankwo*, Edmund I. Itanyi Department of Archaeology and Tourism, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria ARTICLE INFO Keywords: Heritage research Cultural heritage resources Natural heritage resources Ethnography Traditional values Igbo area Tourism Archaeology Religion ABSTRACT 10-11. The bane of the Igbo society today is the relegation of moral In parts of Igbo land, traditional pots not only serve utili-tarian functions but also ceremonial, ritual, and status sym-bols (Ibeanu, 1992, 2006). pp. Ahiajoku Lecture; Owerri, 1987, p.8 13 ibid. Archeological study of Igboland yielded evidence that Igboland was under effective occupation by the third millennium (Afigbo, 1981, p. 145). Sickness and the search for healing in Igboland @inproceedings{Iweadighi2011SicknessAT, title={Sickness and the search for healing in Igboland}, author={Sabinus Okechukwu Iweadighi}, year={2011} } Decadence in Igboland: Socio-Political, Economic and Religious Perspectives. use in socio-cultural practices in parts of Igbo land, such as title taking, traditional medicine, religious practices, and marriage. The novelty of the idea and perhaps, the consequences of the phenomena engendered a lot of interest which did not escape the attention of scholars with intellectual anxiety.1 What probably is little explored is the component of ‘tradition’ in ‘Traditional’ ruler ship in Igboland. According to Ralph Ellis Eden in Egypt,2 the Hebrew Torah (chapter 1: verse 10) records that 1 See F.N. This paper will … Ramsbury Iron-smelting site – pdf (with F. Anozie & K.Ray) ‘Preliminary archaeological studies of early iron-smelting in Igboland, SE Nigeria, in Proceedings of the 9 th Pan-African Congress on Archaeology, 1984. The present disturbing state of the Igbo moral world and the tragedy as well as the apparent degradation of the moral values is indices of the sordid state of the adulterated Igbo moral world. ‘A middle Saxon iron-smelting site at Ramsbury, Wilts’, Medieval Archaeology 24 (1980), 1-68. 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