c. 9000 BCEEvent
Early human occupation near Iwo Eleru
Archaeological remains near Iwo Eleru, close to Akure, point to deep human presence in what is now Nigeria thousands of years before named kingdoms or colonial borders.
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c. 9000 BCE
Early human occupation near Iwo Eleru
Archaeological remains near Iwo Eleru, close to Akure, point to deep human presence in what is now Nigeria thousands of years before named kingdoms or colonial borders.
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Archaeological remains near Iwo Eleru, close to Akure, point to deep human presence in what is now Nigeria thousands of years before named kingdoms or colonial borders. This matters editorially because a serious Nigerian timeline should not begin with Europeans, the 1914 amalgamation, or even the famous precolonial empires.