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2002-2005 EXCAVATION AT OKIGWE.doc
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Edmund Ikechukwu Itanyi
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Nsukka Journal of the Humanities 01/2009; No.18:181.
ABSTRACT
2002 – 2005 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT OKIGWE AREA: A PRELIMINARY REPORT
BY
E. I. ITANYI AND EMEKA E. OKONKWO
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND TOURISM
UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, NSUKKA
EMAIL: itanyiedmund@yahoo.com
PHONE: 08039158282
EMAIL: mec_okonkwo@yahoo.com
PHONE: 08038103599
ABSTRACT
There has been an age-long puzzle on the probable place that the progenitors of the Igbo people settled and from
there spread to other areas. The answer to this issue has been sought for in the realms of many disciplines ranging
from the arts, humanities, social science, and pure sciences.
Geologists have used the geomorphologic distribution and sloping of hills in an attempt to answer the question. In the
same manner, linguists have applied lexico-lingistic interpretation in an attempt to unravel this issue. Historians are at
war using oral traditional and ethnographic data from knowledgeable elders as their weapon for tackling this problem.
Consequent upon the above issue, the Department of Archaeology and Tourism, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
decided to pull the bull by the horn. This culminated in their embarking on a copious work in most parts of eastern
Nigeria, Igbo land in particular.
Sequel to this, Okigwe area, which is presently divided into two groups viz: the ‘Otanzu’ and ‘Otanchara’ with one
group in Abia and the other in Imo States of Nigeria was mapped out for the departmental 2002/2003 field work. The
research work involved both ethnographic and archaeological approaches.
There is much hope that the research result would not only help in throwing more light on the issue at stake, but
would also expose the rich cultural and technological ingenuity of the progenitors of the Ibo people of south-eastern
Nigeria as regards early lithic industry and metallurgy as found in our study area.
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