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Paul Craddock of the British Museum Research Labora- tory has pointed out that the silver in metals used at Igbo Ukwu would almost certainly have been recovered by Euro- pean and Arab smiths of the period, while the unusually low iron content suggests the copper was made by a very primitive technology. It is thus unlikely that the metals used at Igbo Ukwu were prepared north of the Sahara.
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Paul Craddock of the British Museum Research Labora- tory has pointed out that the silver in metals used at Igbo Ukwu would almost certainly have been recovered by Euro- pean and Arab smiths of the period, while the unusually low iron content suggests the copper was made by a very primitive technology. It is thus unlikely that the metals used at Igbo Ukwu were prepared north of the Sahara.

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