The Lydenburg Heads refer to seven terracotta heads that were discovered in association with other pottery artifacts in Lydenburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa. They are among the oldest known African Iron Age artworks from below the equator. The heads share a basic pot like formation with subtle differences in the way they were each shaped.The present theory encompassing the Lydenburg Heads is that they may have been made to fill formal and additionally stylized needs including commencement rights. The two bigger examples could have been worn by a little individual. Assuming this is the case, these heads may speak to a noteworthy point in a child's life, for example, turning into a man, or formal purposes like memorializing an ancestor. The five littler heads have openings in their sides which a few archaeologists propose may have been utilized to associate them to something at the season of their use. The imprints over the brows and between the eyes are hypothesized to speak to scarification denotes, a general practice conduct in Africa. Be that as it may, no proof of scarification is seen drilled inside the cutting edge descendants of the individuals who made the heads.