Gogo Falls — Kavirondo Rock Shelter and Iron Smelting
Neolithic to Iron Age (8000 BCE–500 CE) with rock art·Kavirondo·🇰🇪 Migori County, Kenya
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About Gogo Falls — Kavirondo Rock Shelter and Iron Smelting
Gogo Falls — Kavirondo Rock Shelter and Iron Smelting in Migori County, Kenya is a Neolithic to Iron Age (8000 BCE–500 CE) with rock art rock_art attributed to Kavirondo. Rock shelter with geometric paintings and Iron Age smelting furnace at Gogo Falls dam on Kuja River. Gogo Falls rock shelter with Kansyore pottery and Urewe iron furnaces, Nile-Congo divide.
Why it mattersImportant Kavirondo site of coastal/hinterland Migori County
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Trade network evidence
- 02Construction chronology
Theories
- 01Long-distance exchange
- 02Kayas sacred landscape
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 6000 BCE rock art; 400 CE iron
- Period
- Neolithic to Iron Age (8000 BCE–500 CE) with rock art
- Culture
- Kavirondo
- Purpose
- Rock shelter with geometric paintings and Iron Age smelting furnace at Gogo Falls dam on Kuja River
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
c. 6000 BCE rock art; 400 CE iron
Initial construction
c. 1920 CE
Antiquarian survey
On the ground
Structures & features
0.9200° S · 34.3000° E · 1100 m · 3 mapped features
- Gogo Falls — Kavirondo Rock Shelter and Iron Smelting — Rock Shelter PanelpanelPainted shelter wall0.9198° S · 34.3001° E
- Gogo Falls — Kavirondo Rock Shelter and Iron Smelting — Smelting FurnacefurnaceIron furnace remains0.9202° S · 34.3002° E
- Gogo Falls — Kavirondo Rock Shelter and Iron Smelting — Mound EdgeedgeMound erosion edge0.9195° S · 34.2998° E