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The Irangi-Kondoa Rock Painting Sites of central Tanzania were named as a
World Heritage Site in 2006 on account of their great universal value. It lay on the eastern slopes of the Masai escarpment bordering the Great Rift Valley are natural Rock shelter caves. The caves contain paintings, some of which believed in the Tanzania Antiquities Department to date back over 50,000 years. They located nine kilometres east of the main highway from Dodoma to Babati, about 20 km north of Kondoa town, in Kondoa District of Dodoma Region, Tanzania. The spectacular collections of images estimated between 150 and 450 shelters over 2,336 km2. Images Painting are of high artistic value, displays sequences of changing socio-economic base of the area from hunter-gatherer to Agro-pastoralist, and the beliefs and ideas associated with the different societies. Some of the shelters still considered having ritual associations with the people who live nearby, reflecting their beliefs, rituals and cosmological traditions.
In, the early 1950’s archaeologists and anthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey conducted a survey of some 100 sites and in 1983 Mary released a book highlighting the beautiful art they found there. However, still merely a handful of people have seen it.
Machimbo explorer collected images from different sources of published literature to show the beautiful art of our descended ancestors.
source. www.machimbo.com