Òyì nke e mepụtara

The pillars are carved with over two hundred relief images executed with artistic sophistication that has no stylistic precedent anywhere in the record. The carvings appear fully developed. No rougher earlier examples. No learning curve. They arrived fully formed, as if the knowledge was already there. Schmidt's analysis indicated the construction required a sustained workforce of five hundred or more people over multiple decades, numbers that imply coordination between multiple nomadic