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Nyero Rockpaintings (Ancient paintings in rockshelters)

Les noms des biens figurent dans la langue dans laquelle les Etats parties les ont soumis.

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.