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- ItemAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF IRON SMELTING SITES AT TSAUNI, GIWA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA(2010-03)The recent archaeological research conducted at Tsauni iron smelting sites, Giwa Local Government Area, Kaduna state, Nigeria, was essentially a study of the iron smelting at Tsauni which involved archaeological surveying, excavation, metallurgical analyses and radio carbon dating. Archaeological surveying of Tsauni in this research project indicates considerable disparity in the physiographic and material evidence of the north and the south of the area. The spatial configuration of the material evidence at Tsauni suggests that the location of smelting sites was predicated on two factors: proximity to source of ore (as indicated in the closeness of sites to the lateritic outcrops commonly found in the area) and the source of water reflected in location near streams or gullies. Archaeological excavations conducted in the area also indicate close affinities between the furnaces used at Tsauni north and south which were draught induced type and the tuyeres which area also morphologically similar. From the metallurgical analyses of iron smelting residues, we discovered that mineralogical phases in the slag samples from Tsauni are essentially similar and are also closely related to samples from some sites in the Zaria region. Based on technical analyses therefore, we posit, that there were no marked differences in the pattern of iron smelting within Tsauni and other sites in the Zaria region. The C14 dates from Tsauni north and south, which fall within the first and fourth centuries AD further corroborate our view that smelting operations in the two areas were very similar, which goes to suggest that what have been construed as different sites may actually be the same. The dates appear to be strongly indicative of the existence of pre-Hausa iron smelters at Tsauni and the possibility that iron smelting spread to other parts of Zaria area from there.
- ItemAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF IRON SMELTING SITES AT TSAUNI, GIWA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA(2010-03)The recent archaeological research conducted at Tsauni iron smelting sites, Giwa Local Government Area, Kaduna state, Nigeria, was essentially a study of the iron smelting at Tsauni which involved archaeological surveying, excavation, metallurgical analyses and radio carbon dating. Archaeological surveying of Tsauni in this research project indicates considerable disparity in the physiographic and material evidence of the north and the south of the area. The spatial configuration of the material evidence at Tsauni suggests that the location of smelting sites was predicated on two factors: proximity to source of ore (as indicated in the closeness of sites to the lateritic outcrops commonly found in the area) and the source of water reflected in location near streams or gullies. Archaeological excavations conducted in the area also indicate close affinities between the furnaces used at Tsauni north and south which were draught induced type and the tuyeres which area also morphologically similar. From the metallurgical analyses of iron smelting residues, we discovered that mineralogical phases in the slag samples from Tsauni are essentially similar and are also closely related to samples from some sites in the Zaria region. Based on technical analyses therefore, we posit, that there were no marked differences in the pattern of iron smelting within Tsauni and other sites in the Zaria region. The C14 dates from Tsauni north and south, which fall within the first and fourth centuries AD further corroborate our view that smelting operations in the two areas were very similar, which goes to suggest that what have been construed as different sites may actually be the same. The dates appear to be strongly indicative of the existence of pre-Hausa iron smelters at Tsauni and the possibility that iron smelting spread to other parts of Zaria area from there.
- Itemالقرآن الكريم(1974)
- ItemAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF IRON SMELTING SITES AT TSAUNI, GIWA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA(2010-03)The recent archaeological research conducted at Tsauni iron smelting sites, Giwa Local Government Area, Kaduna state, Nigeria, was essentially a study of the iron smelting at Tsauni which involved archaeological surveying, excavation, metallurgical analyses and radio carbon dating. Archaeological surveying of Tsauni in this research project indicates considerable disparity in the physiographic and material evidence of the north and the south of the area. The spatial configuration of the material evidence at Tsauni suggests that the location of smelting sites was predicated on two factors: proximity to source of ore (as indicated in the closeness of sites to the lateritic outcrops commonly found in the area) and the source of water reflected in location near streams or gullies. Archaeological excavations conducted in the area also indicate close affinities between the furnaces used at Tsauni north and south which were draught induced type and the tuyeres which area also morphologically similar. From the metallurgical analyses of iron smelting residues, we discovered that mineralogical phases in the slag samples from Tsauni are essentially similar and are also closely related to samples from some sites in the Zaria region. Based on technical analyses therefore, we posit, that there were no marked differences in the pattern of iron smelting within Tsauni and other sites in the Zaria region. The C14 dates from Tsauni north and south, which fall within the first and fourth centuries AD further corroborate our view that smelting operations in the two areas were very similar, which goes to suggest that what have been construed as different sites may actually be the same. The dates appear to be strongly indicative of the existence of pre-Hausa iron smelters at Tsauni and the possibility that iron smelting spread to other parts of Zaria area from there.
- ItemA FUNCTIONALIST ANALYSIS OF EXPRESSIONS AND EXPRESSIVENESS OF HAUSA ORATURE IN DAMAGARAM(2023-09)This study attempts a functionalist analysis of expressions and expressiveness of Hausa orature of Damagaram and demonstrates the social function each of the types fulfills. The study examines the functions and expressiveness of this tradition of Hausa orature in the region. It is important also to specify certain socio-cultural practices as a result of foreign contacts and attitudes of dispossession or distortion of the cultural values in Damagaram. The stifling of some features of ancestral values was accelerated through the education system at every level, leading to abandoning of the professional initiations and certain family occupations. This study was carried out of a very critical time for orature in Niger Republic, particularly in Damagaram because of a wave of deaths of some eminent artists of this area some of whom included Yerima Malam, Ma‘azu Ɗan Alalo and Zabiya Hurera. Methodologically, for the primary source of data, four teachers were selected as research assistants for data gathering, identifying the most famous artists in Damagaram, their places of origin, their target audience and collecting some items of their performances. Later, the researcher conducted the validation of the corpus by attending to the artists and areas in different zones. The findings of the study revealed how the Hausa orature in Damagaram area from the point of view of expressions and expressiveness is relevant in the spectrum of orature in the social function it was supposed to perform. The form and the modes of expression are the same; but because of the diversity of the environment, the genius of expressiveness remains the base of authenticity. Also, it was found that Ma‘azu Ɗan Alalo had different tunes and manners from Ɗanƙwairo not because the first was in Niger Republic and the second in Nigeria, but the fate of contexts played on the personality of each of the two and makes the first what he was, and not an adapter of the second. This is also valid between Ɗan Alalo and Zabiya Furera or Yerima Malam for the same arguments on the myth of human personality. The study concludes that each orature material – proverb, folktale, song, lullaby, sarcasm of women, epithet, innuendo, riddle, counting rhyme – carries specific message and function. Also, each performer uses his/her technique or manner – which is called expressiveness - to express oneself or pass on a message. And the more expressive a literary message is, the more likely it is to accomplish the social function to which it is destined