Nyero Rockpaintings (Ancient paintings in rockshelters)
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Ouganda (Afrique)
Date de soumission : 10/09/1997
Critères:
(i)(ii)(vi)
Catégorie :
Culturel
Soumission préparée par :
Department of Antiquities and Museums
Coordonnées
Ngora sub-county, Kumi
Lat. 1°28'30" N ; Long. 33°50'40" E
Ref.: 914
Description
The Nyero Rockpaintings site is a three tiered rockshelters with primitive paintings on their inner surfaces. Archaeologically the site is of a Later Iron Age period. The makers of the paintings cannot be traced but the ingenuity in which they were painted demonstrates a high degree of appreciation of their aesthetic values.



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