Archeologists believe the sculpture influenced later West African art.
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The Nok people were the first people to smelt iron.
This is an alphabetically ordered list of ancient civilizations. It includes types of cultures, traditions, and industries as well as more traditionally defined civilizations. Abbevillian industry Acheulean industry Aegean civilizations Amratian culture Ancestral Pueblo culture Ancient Egypt Ancient Greek civilization Ancient Iran Ancient Italic people The ancient Middle East Ancient Rome Andean cultures Archaic culture Assyria Aterian industry Aurignacian culture Australian Aboriginal peoples Azilian industry Badarian culture Banpo culture Big-Game Hunting Tradition Boian culture Capsian industry Carthage Chavín Chellean industry Choukoutienian industry Clactonian industry Dawenkou culture Desert cultures Dong Son culture Dorset culture El Argar Erlitou culture Ertebølle industry Fauresmith industry Gerzean culture Ghassulian culture Hohokam culture Hongshan culture Ibero-Maurusian industry Indus civilization Inugsuk culture Ipiutak culture Jōmon culture Kachemak culture Kurgan culture Lapita culture LBK culture Longshan culture Lupemban industry Magdalenian culture Maglemosian industry Magosian industry Mesopotamia Minoan civilization Mississippian culture Moche Mogollon culture Mousterian industry Mycenaean civilization Nachikufan industry Natufian culture Nazca Nok culture Old Cordilleran culture Oldowan industry Osteodontokeratic tool industry Paracas Perigordian industry Phoenicia pre-Columbian civilizations Qijia culture Recuay Sangoan industry Solutrean industry Stillbay industry Tasian culture Tayacian industry Teotihuacán civilization Thule culture Trypillya culture Urnfield culture Villanovan culture Woodland cultures Yangshao culture Yayoi culture