ABSTRACT
In the late 1970s and early 1980s a number of ethnoarchaeological studies were conducted in the area south of the river Benue in Nigeria inhabited by the Tiv (Fig. 15.1). The prime objectives of this Bantu ‘Homeland’ Project, as it was called, were to trace the character of settlement, land use patterns, technological and social developments ‘and to use such data to test closely various hypotheses derived mainly from linguistic evidence regarding the earliest decipherable phases of “Bantu” cultural history’ (Andah 1983, p. 23). A report on excavations in two rock shelters at Tse Dura carried out as part of this project has already been published (Andah 1983, pp. 33–60). Main sites mentioned in the text (after Andah 1983, Fig. 1) https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203754245/dfce3003-8e7f-4a78-97c4-1536bbc021a1/content/fig15_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
