Kondoa Rock Art Sites (2006)
United Republic of Tanzania
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Kondoa Rock Art Sites, on the eastern slopes of the Masai
escarpment bordering the Great Rift Valley are natural rock shelters,
overhanging slabs of sedimentary rocks fragmented by rift faults, whose
vertical planes have been used for rock paintings over at least two
millennia.
The spectacular collection of images from over 150 shelters over 2,336 km2, many with high artistic value, displays sequences that provide a unique testimony to the changing socio-economic base of the area from hunter-gatherer to agro-pastoralist societies, and the beliefs and ideas associated with them. Some of the shelters are still considered to have ritual associations with the people who live nearby reflecting their beliefs, rituals and cosmological traditions.
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Other World Heritage Sites in Tanzania (on this site). Please refer to the UNESCO-listing, Tanzania Section, for further information about the individual properties.
Revised 21 aug 2006 |