The discovery of an 8,000-year-old dugout canoe in the village of Dufuna near this body of water suggested the extent of its ancient floodplain. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this body of water whose early inhabitants included the Gajiganna culture, which built the site of Zilum, and the Sao civilization.
ANSWER: Lake Chad [or Lac Tchad; or Buhayrat ta-Shad; accept Lake Mega-Chad]
[10m] One of the many terracotta sculptures created by this culture depicts two figures paddling a dugout canoe, suggesting that this Iron Age culture centered in modern-day Nigeria navigated the Niger and its tributaries.
ANSWER: Nok culture
[10e] Scholars are still unsure about the relationship between the Nok culture and this broad ethnolinguistic group, whose migrations led to the spread of terracotta sculptures like the Lydenburg heads to what is now South Africa.
ANSWER: Bantu
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