Central-Nigerian society famed for terracotta sculpture and among the earliest iron-working in West Africa.
The Nok culture disappeared gradually between c. 300 BCE and 200 CE, its terracotta tradition fading with no clear successor state; the cause is debated (environmental degradation, epidemic, or societal reorganization) and no discrete end event is recorded.
Broad survey covering early West African societies such as the Nok.
Treats early West African iron-working cultures within a continent-wide history (broad context).
Shillington's standard survey of the African past sets the Nok terracotta culture within the early history of West Africa.