Pottery appears at Iwo Eleru; Late Stone Age forest occupation confirmed

The appearance of pottery after about 3000 BC at Iwo Eleru may be connected with a movement of people or ideas southwards out of the Sahara, when pastoralists who had occupied moister conditions in the Sahara during the fifth and sixth millennia BC were driven south by final aridification. A rock shelter at Afikpo in the forest zone of southeastern Nigeria also had pottery throughout a Late Stone Age occupation that lasted from 3000 BC up to the first century AD.