Kondoa Deep History Partnership

The Late Pleistocene-Holocene site at Kisese II rockshelter is adorned with extensive red fine line paintings of human figures, geometric shapes, and animals, and is one of the only known rock art localities associated with a dated archaeological sequence in eastern Africa. Documented by Mary and Louis Leakey who excavated over > 24 m3 at the site, the site is today located in the Kondoa Irangi UNESCO World Heritage Center, associated with hundreds of painted sites.

The KDHP seeks to co-develop a community collaborative, geoscience strategy to study the rock art and its relationship to the Kondoa Late Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological record