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Fosbrooke, H. 1950. Rock engravings or petroglyphs | The Kondoa sites: where they are and how to get there | Some Kondoa paintings more fully described | Paintings in districts other than Kondoa. Tanganyika Notes and Records 29: 1-61.

Rock engravings or petroglyphs | The Kondoa sites: where they are and how to get there | Some Kondoa paintings more fully described | Paintings in districts other than Kondoa

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Location Eastern Africa Subject Distribution Species African Rhinos

Kondoa is about 250 km SW of Arusha, south of Lake Manyara and Tarangiri.
Area A. Kisese I contains a Pair of rhino, illustrated Leakey, Stone Age Africa, fig. 27
Area D. Twali I (upper) contains painting of “Rhino” (plate IIA)
See p. 18. The Rhino – resembles SAA style 5, both are thin red outline, the rendering of the tail of the Rhino from Kisese in SAA fig. 27 is identical, and feet very similar. But the proportion of head and body is more realistic in the Kisese example. The filling-in here shown correlates this with Kolo style (d) which occurs at Megeani group F 1-7.

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