An Iron Age archaeological culture of the lower Niger River valley (southwest Niger / southeast Burkina Faso), known for smelted-iron tools and weapons and distinctive terracotta figurines and burial urns, radiocarbon-dated from the 3rd century AD.
Persisted as a distinct regional Iron Age culture until roughly the 13th century AD, when it disappears from the archaeological record. Its relationship to later West African states remains poorly understood; the culture was only discovered in 1975 and first excavated in 1983, so it is still described in the literature as 'shadowy' and 'mysterious'.
Broad archaeological survey of Iron Age West Africa that situates the Bura-Asinda-Sikka culture within the wider regional record.