An Archaeological Investigation Of Old Gawu Settlement Sites, Abaji Area Council, Abuja, Nigeria

📄 Project Abstract

This research entitled An Archaeological Investigation of Old Gawu Settlement Sites, Abaji Area Council Abuja, Nigeria was carried out on settlement sites located on the hilltop that makes up the Gawu ridge and also at the foot of the hill. The research is a conscious attempt to reconstruct the early history of the Gawu area using archaeological and historical approaches. Such site in the suburb of the FCT of Nigeria are constantly been destroyed by developers seeking to develop these suburb into befitting satellite towns in the bid to depopulate and decongest the metropolis. This act is carried out constantly without any attempt to document the archaeology of such areas. Historical and archaeological methods were employed in carrying out this study, these include; the use of written documents and archival sources, the use of oral data collection, archaeological survey, collection of ethnographic data and the classification and analysis of finds and features from the sites. Hence the h...