The Lydenburg Heads are a set of seven terracotta heads that were discovered with other pottery artefacts in Lydenburg, Mpumalanga in South Africa. One of the heads has been dated to around 500 AD, and it is believed that the rest of the heads also originate from the same time period. The Lydenburg Heads are, at present, the earliest known examples of Iron Age art south of the equator. The use and meaning of the heads cannot be known for certain, but it is believed that they were created to serve ritualistic and or ceremonial purposes. (http://bit.ly/2JcSbqa, http://bit.ly/2M4r6Dd)