Research findings published in the Adam Trilogy: The Gram Code of African Adam; They Lived Before Adam and The Lost Testament of the Ancestors of Adam reveal that Igbo language, Igbo Culture, religion and philosophies were the mother pot of world civilizations, culture, religions and philosophies, not excluding some ancient writing systems and prehistoric stone inscriptions. Since 1976, archaeologists of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (notably the late Professor F.N. Anozie, Prof Eme Okafor and Prof Pamela Eze-Uzoamaka), have been conducting excavations in the Nsukka area and unearthing evidence of Pre-historic iron smelting in various parts of Old Nsukka with varying dates being obtained. In 2012 the Oxford University Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory gave a date of 2,000 B.C. to furnace and charcoal samples from the iron smelting site in Lejja. 2,000 B.C. is, according to Prof Eme Okafor, Dean of Archaeology, UNN, the oldest date for iron smelting technology in the world. In Dec 2013 the Catherine Acholonu Research Center (CARC) under the auspices of the Enugu State government, led a team of ten African American scholars and tourists to the Lejja site as part of the Ebo Landing Project. In February 2013 a reconnaissance trip was made by a joint team of international Scholars from CARC and UNN Institute of African Studies to the Lejja site led by Professor Sam Onuigbo -the Head of the Institute. What the two groups saw is evidence of industrial iron-smelting. This paper addresses the question of who, and what civilization, could have been responsible for mining and processing industrial iron in Lejja and in Igbo land by 2000 B.C
Posted on: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 16:00:37 +0000