Reopening the archives of archaeology at Ile-Ife, Nigeria : Towards a history of the Osangangan (…)

In 1953, the archaeologists Bernard Fagg and A.J.H. Goodwin excavated sacred grove sites in Ile-Ife, south-western Nigeria, where they hoped to uncover artefactual and stratigraphic evidence of the town’s early history. They were especially interested in developing artefact typologies and (…)