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>He suggests that Igbo people and Yoruba people may have admixture from back-migrated Bantu peoples
>The Gobero archaeological site, dating to approximately 8000 BCE, is the oldest known graveyard in the Sahara Desert. The site contains important information for archaeologists on how early humans adapted to a constantly changing environment. Gobero is located in the Ténéré desert of Niger, and is named after the Tuareg name for the region. It is the type site of the Holocene era Kiffian culture and Tenerian culture
I read recently that the Yoruba had a sort of "pope" or "religious high king" called Ooni who resided at the sacred-city of Ife and who nobody could look at directly, cause he was permeated with divine energy that could kill you. So when rulers had audiences with him, the Ooni would stretch a single foot out from behind the curtains that hung before his throne, so that the supplicant would know he was paying attention.
After the Ooni died, a group of special potters - pottery was a big deal for the Yoruba, who likely adopted it from the Nok civilization - would make a clay sculpture of the Oonis face, which was then paraded around Ife so that people could see what the last Ooni looked like.
Those busts show a very characteristic pattern of vertical striped on the face, which has been interpreted as either a very radical form of scarification, or as a veil made of pearls that was further meant to protect the world from the divinely-powerful face of the Ooni.
>He suggests that Igbo people and Yoruba people may have admixture from back-migrated Bantu peoples
>The Gobero archaeological site, dating to approximately 8000 BCE, is the oldest known graveyard in the Sahara Desert. The site contains important information for archaeologists on how early humans adapted to a constantly changing environment. Gobero is located in the Ténéré desert of Niger, and is named after the Tuareg name for the region. It is the type site of the Holocene era Kiffian culture and Tenerian culture
I read recently that the Yoruba had a sort of "pope" or "religious high king" called Ooni who resided at the sacred-city of Ife and who nobody could look at directly, cause he was permeated with divine energy that could kill you. So when rulers had audiences with him, the Ooni would stretch a single foot out from behind the curtains that hung before his throne, so that the supplicant would know he was paying attention.
After the Ooni died, a group of special potters - pottery was a big deal for the Yoruba, who likely adopted it from the Nok civilization - would make a clay sculpture of the Oonis face, which was then paraded around Ife so that people could see what the last Ooni looked like.
Those busts show a very characteristic pattern of vertical striped on the face, which has been interpreted as either a very radical form of scarification, or as a veil made of pearls that was further meant to protect the world from the divinely-powerful face of the Ooni.
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