🇹🇿 Tanzania · Ancient village
Mumba Cave
Middle Stone Age to Later Stone Age to Pastoral Neolithic · MSA → LSA foragers → Pastoral Neolithic
130-ka Eyasi rockshelter Mumba with 18 burials and Still Bay to LSA microlith transition.
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🇹🇿 Tanzania · Ancient village
Middle Stone Age to Later Stone Age to Pastoral Neolithic · MSA → LSA foragers → Pastoral Neolithic
130-ka Eyasi rockshelter Mumba with 18 burials and Still Bay to LSA microlith transition.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Kondoa Irangi — Rock Paintings Ancillary Panel (Kolo) in Dodoma, Kondoa, Kolo, Tanzania is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art att…
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Engare Sero — Footprint Tuff Ancillary Trackway in Arusha, Engare Sero, Tanzania is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed…
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Rock art
Middle Stone Age / Later Stone Age · Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers
60 m deep sequence from Acheulean bifaces to 30 ka ostrich-eggshell beads and 19 ka geometric microliths bridging Middle Stone Age–Neolithic. Rock paintings overlie MSA horizons.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Rock art
Middle Stone Age to Iron Age (40,000 BCE–500 CE paintings peak) · Hunter-gatherer (Sandawe ancestors) / Pastoral Cushitic / Bantu Isanzu
Sub-cluster of Kondoa WH 150 shelters at Kolo with Kisese II stratified 40 ka to 1,500 CE and layered hunter-to-pastoral-to-Bantu style sequence.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period rock art
Laetoli Footprint Trail G2 North in Arusha, Laetoli, Tanzania is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Multi-period rock art.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Rock art
Late Stone Age to recent (~3000 BCE – 19th century CE; most 1500 BCE onward) · Sandawe hunter-gatherer to Bantu pastoralist, later Warangi
Over 150 shelters scattered across the Kondoa escarpment display stratified painting traditions: early naturalistic eland and human figures with elongated heads (hunter-gatherer), later white…
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Rock art
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Harlaa Urban Mound East in Serengeti, Tanzania is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Iron Age culture.
