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The Odùduwà traditions and the versions that compete with them, the argument over migration versus indigenous development, and what excavation at Ilé-Ifẹ̀ has actually dated.
Ilé-Ifẹ̀ between roughly the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, its sculpture in copper alloy and terracotta, the industries that paid for it, and its relationships with Benin, Ọ̀wọ̀ and the Niger.
What laboratory analysis of Yoruba iron, glass and dye actually shows, including the Igbo Olokun glass which turned out to be made rather than imported, and how the reducing chemistry of an indigo vat and a soap ash lye works.
Archaeological, chemical, and historical evidence for primary glass manufacture and drawn bead production at Ilé-Ifẹ̀ between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries CE.