The extraordinary Nok civilization appeared in Nigeria 1,000 years before Christ and died mysteriously at the end of the first millennium. Assume that his disappearance was due to an epidemic or a devastating famine. It now appears to have been a very advanced civilization in both its social organization of refinement at a time when the rest of southern Africa enters the Neolithic (Stone Age hunters and farmers when could help as stone tools). It has, on occasion, spoken of with immediate descendants of ancient Egypt, which would explain some of the maturity of this civilization, considered the oldest producer of terracotta-Saharan Africa. The pieces of art that time has retained, through magnificent terracotta express advance technology potters master the art of fire and cooking as well as the high quality of artists and sculptors. The subjects of their performances are mostly dignitaries, animals, relics, preserved for most parts, the form of scattered fragments. Therefore Nok art is known today only through the heads of both male and female, whose hairstyles are particularly detailed and refined. The reason for these fragments of statues is that the discovery of the terracotta is usually by digging mud alluvial land resulting in the erosion of water. The terracotta statues were found buried there, rolled, polished, broken.crackcrackcrackcrackcrackcrackcrackcrackcrackcrack