Kolo 2

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Title

Kolo 2

Subject

CULTURAL HERITAGE,INTANGABLE HERITAGE

Description

Kolo rock art is a cultural heritage site within Kondoa World Heritage Site. The site is located on the slopes of the Maasai escarpment that flanks the western side of the Great Rift Valley in central Tanzania in an area about 2300 km. There are dozens of caves and shelters with paintings of elongated people, animals, hunting scenes, and abstract markings. Like most hunter-gatherer paintings found in eastern and southern Africa, in general the Kondoa fine-line paintings have generally been dated being more than 2,000 years old and are said to have been done by a group of hunter-gatherers belonging to the Sandawe tribe.

Contributor

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Format

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Type

3D Object

License

In Copyright (InC)

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Object

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DescriptionEN

Kolo rock art is a cultural heritage site within Kondoa World Heritage Site. The site is located on the slopes of the Maasai escarpment that flanks the western side of the Great Rift Valley in central Tanzania in an area about 2300 km. There are dozens of caves and shelters with paintings of elongated people, animals, hunting scenes, and abstract markings. Like most hunter-gatherer paintings found in eastern and southern Africa, in general the Kondoa fine-line paintings have generally been dated being more than 2,000 years old and are said to have been done by a group of hunter-gatherers belonging to the Sandawe tribe.

Files

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Citation

“Kolo 2,” Tanzania, accessed February 1, 2025, https://sdhtanzania.org/omeka/items/show/61.