Daima and Sao
 Small figurines of fired
clay were excavated in a mound at Daima near Lake
Chad in levels dating from the 5th century BC or earlier, while others were
found in Zimbabwe in deposits of the later part of the 1st millennium AD.
Small
Daima clay figures. Neolitic period.
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imply an even earlier stage of unfired clay modeling. About the time of these
lower levels at Daima (which represent a Neolithic, or New Stone Age, pastoral
economy), there was flourishing farther to the west the fully Iron Age Nok
Culture, producing large, hollow sculptures in well-fired pottery, some
of the stylistic features of which imply yet earlier prototypes in wood.
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Not far from the Nok area but very different in style,
at Daima near Lake Chad, small, simple clay animal figures were by the 6th
century BC being made by a population of Neolithic herdsmen. A little later they
began making animals with more extended legs, and sometime after AD 1000 they
started to make animals covered with little spikes. The last are similar to
examples found on sites of the Sao culture in the Chari Valley, Cameroon, where
more elaborate human figure sculptures, thought to represent ancestors and
probably spirits, have been found. Carbon-14 dates for these sites range from
the 5th century BC to the 18th century AD.
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