MWELA ROCK PAINTINGS

An exceptional site classified as a national monument and UNESCO world heritage. It is a major prehistoric art complex in Africa of some 700 rock paintings in caves and caverns. They were made by Batwa (or Twa) hunter-gatherers in the Stone Age and some may be as old as 20,000 years. Most of the drawings represent abstract and enigmatic geometric shapes of dots and circles. But at Sumina, one can see a hunter chasing a lion and a buffalo, and at Mwankole, figures of dancers and a penis.