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It highlights material knowledge such as copper and ironwork, recovered tools and burial practices, and daily life through farming, pottery, figures, jewellery, and crafts. The text also covers beliefs about their king and the legend of fearsome giants, then explains a major shift when Massa peoples invaded and gradually ended Sao culture.","The Sao  \nEnglish Non Fiction  \nThe Sao  \nWritten by Carol Smith  \nImages by Kate Pedley  \nEnglish United Kingdom  \nCopyright © 2020, SIL Cameroon  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)[ ](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)[You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may](You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may)[ ](You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may)adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nImages by Kate Pedley, © 2020 SIL Cameroon. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.  \nThis book is part of the SIL Cameroon Branch Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education 5th year reading curriculum.  \nThe Sao  \nA late pre-historic people in Cameroon.  \nAn Archaeologist is a historian who studies ancient cultures and the people who lived long ago by studying the remains of the things those people used at that time.  \nThe Sao people lived in the Far North of Cameroon, in the Logone valley and around Lake Chad, maybe as early as the 5th century AD. They knew how to make things out of copper and ironwork. Archaeologists have found metal hoes, harpoons, knives and fishhooks. They buried their dead in large urns.  \nAlthough legend says that the Sao people were‘fearsome giants’ they were a peace-loving people. They were farmers. They made clay pots and figures, jewellery and money. The Sao children are believed to have made toy soldiers, horsemen, animals and canoes out of clay. Also the Sao people were thought to be good builders. They built large villages surrounded by clay walls.  \nLegends tell that the Sao king was very important. He was thought of being like a god. He was treated with great respect. Ordinary Sao people were not allowed to see him. His health was thought to be important for the success of the crops.  \nSometime between the 8th and 15th century the Sao people were invaded from the east by the Massa peoples. The Massa settled alongside the Sao and married with them. Sao culture disappeared. 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