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<dc:subject>CULTURAL HERITAGE,ENVIRONMENT,GEOLOGY,HISTORY,RECREATION AND TOURISM,TOPOGRAPHY AND LANDSCAPE</dc:subject>
<dc:description>Kondoa Irangi Rock Paintings are located between Singida and Irangi Hills in Kondoa Irangi village and other rock painting is located at Kolo village in Dodoma. The rock paintings are a series of ancient paintings on rockshelter walls in central Tanzania. The images represent both hunter-gatherers and agro-pastoralist ways of life, depicting the changing lifestyles over the past two thousand years. The number of rock art sites in the Kondoa area is approximated about 450. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2006 because of its impressive collection of rock art.  The sites are located on the steep eastern slopes of the Masai escarpment bordering the Great Rift Valley.  These sites are used for rituals practices.</dc:description>
<dc:date>Middle Stone Age,Later Stone Age</dc:date>
<dc:contributor>Mwita William, Mwamvita Sollo</dc:contributor>
<dc:language>Swahili, Rangi , Waasi and Sandawe </dc:language>
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<dc:date submitted>13/11/2019</dc:date submitted>
<dc:extent>cm x cm x cm</dc:extent>
<dc:medium>Site visit, Division of Antiquities</dc:medium>
<dc:references>https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1183/, https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-1-4419-0465-2_2149. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondoa_Rock-Art_Sites</dc:references>
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