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Social Dynamics of Field Archaeology in Parts of Nigeria

This paper addresses some of the conceptual and methodological issues centring on archaeological practice in Africa, using the Tiv and Ungwai peoples of central Nigeria as our reference point. Research efforts todate, show in a fascinating manner that archaeologists can raise the level of intelligibility of the material remains at their disposal if models rooted in humanistic subjects such as oral tradition and ethnography are carefully applied. Similarly, subjectivity, which blurs the true picture of the past of man, can be reduced to the barest minimum when we are able to obtain a new unders…