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| | The origin of Ndiigbo |
 | | These four sites have produced abundant and irrevocable evidence of the fact that at least between 100,000 BC and 5,000 BC, man started his cultural drama in what I refer to as the theater of Igboland. |
 | | In seeking for a solution, I will apply the anthropological-linguistic evidence based on glottochronology which puts the date of the emergence of Igbo language from the proto-Niger languages at about 6,000 BC and lexicostatistics which suggests the relative degree of differences of varieties of Igbo language spoken today. |
 | | The Peopling of the Igbo Culture Area: 300 BC to 1910 AD Three categories of tradition emerged from my collection of oral history in the oldest settlements like Agbor, Nri, Owerri, etc., and the newer ones of Asaba, Ibusa, Ndikelionwu,, etc. They are autochthony, amnesia, and certainty. |
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