Chongoni Rock-Art Area
World Heritage
Malawi
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The area, located in a forested granite hill on the central highlands of Malawi, covers an area of 126.4 square kilometres and contains 127 sites, making it the richest region of rock art in Central Africa. They reflect the relatively scarce rock art tradition of farmers, as well as paintings by BaTwa hunter-gatherers who have lived in the area since the Late Stone Age. The ancestors of the Chewa farmers, who lived here since the Late Iron Age, continued to paint rock art until the 20th century. The symbolic art on the rocks is closely associated with women and still has cultural significance among the Chewa people, and the sites are actively associated with ceremony and ritual.
# Rock paintings
# Malawi
# Peasant rock painting tradition
# BaTwa Hunter-Gatherers
# Chewa farmers
# Symbol Art
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Information extracted from Wikidata
| image | http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chongoni%20rock%20art.jpg |
| executive body | Chongoni Rock-Art Area |
| office held by head of the organization | http://g.co/kg/m/04cyy10 |
| Commons category | Chongoni Rock-Art Area |
| coordinate location | Point(34.279166666 -14.293333333) |
| official website | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/476 |
| elevation above sea level | 2198 |
| area | 12640 |
| World Heritage criteria | World Heritage selection criterion (vi) |
| start time | 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z |
| official name | فن النقش والرسوم على الصخور في شونغوني |
| official name | Chongoni Rock-Art Area |
| official name | Arte rupestre de Chongoni |
| official name | Art rupestre de Chongoni |
| official name | チョンゴニ・ロック‐アート地域 |
| official name | Rotskunstgebied Chongoni |
| official name | Наскальные изображения в Чонгони |
| official name | 琼戈尼岩石艺术区 |
| volume as quantity | World Heritage selection criterion (vi) |