Nok wani kauye ne dake Jaba, karamar hukumar Jaba a Jihar KadunanNijeriya. Samun surar halittu da akayi da yambu a garin yasa aka rika amfani da suna garin yazama nan ne al'adun Nok take, wadanda surorin su sune aka rika yin su a Nijeriya tun a shekarar 1500 BC zuwa 500 AD.[1][2] An gano wadannan sarrafofin hannun ne a shekarar 1943 lokacin gudanar da aikin hako ma'adinai.[3] Mai aikin Bernard Fagg ya binciki garin da kuma taimakawan yangarin ne yasa aka hako Karin surarin da da dama.[4] kayayyakin kona karafa na kira suma ansame su a lokacin.[1] lokutan da aka fara binciken garin tun kafin a fara aikin Kira ansamu konannun katakai a tsakiyar garin Nok, a shekarar 1951 ance katakan zasu kai tun shekara ta 3660 BC, amma ana ganin akwai matsalar ta yadda aka tabbatar da hakan.[5]
↑cite book
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tTs9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA159
|page=159
|title=Stone-Age prehistory: studies in memory of Charles McBurney
|author1=Charles Brian Montagu McBurney |author2=G. N. Bailey |author3=Paul Callow |publisher=Cambridge University Press
|year=1986
|ISBN=0-521-25773-5