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Top image: Kakapel Rock art panel. Source: Catherine Namono/ CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

One rock painted by three peoples

Kakapel, Kenya. over about 9,000 years. Before writing. Known. Free

Known. At least three groups painted the same rock over about 9,000 years.

At Kakapel, a rock shelter in western Kenya, the paintings lie in layers. The oldest layer has faded red and white shapes, linked to hunter-gatherer-fisher people. A later layer shows at least 25 cattle with long horns and no humps, linked to later cattle-keeping people. A still later group painted thick white and yellow-white shapes.

The page says the exact meaning of the paintings is still being studied.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/kakapel-rock-art-00102741