An Archaeological Reconnaissance Of Padur Hill Abandoned Settlement Site In Langtang North Local Government Area Of Plateau State, Nigeria

📄 Project Abstract

This thesis has attempted to bring to limelight the history of the people who once occupied the Padur Hill and who have now settled in the present day Shishiri plains which is about three kilometers from the once occupied Padur hill. The only attempt to write the history of the Padur people was that made by Nimzing Sunday on the burial system of the Taroh with particular reference to Padur abandoned settlement site, thus the necessity to use archaeological methods to reconstruct the history of the Padur people. The present research aimed at reconstructing the past ways of life of the people who occupied Padur hill by studying the site. The objectives are to document the oral history of Padur people and to use archaeological methods to identify, document, describe, and interpret the various cultural materials on the site so as to understand the cultural change and continuity by comparing the ethnographic materials of the people with the archaeological data. The methods of research emplo...