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In Kenya, the Same Wall of Kakapel's Rock Art Site Was Used as a Canvas by Four Different Peoples over More than 10,000 Years

The Kenyan rock art sometimes conceals human archives of unexpected richness. The Kakapel site, in the granite hills of the district of Busia, concentrates on the same wall the traces of four distinct peoples. Researchers from the University of Witwatersrand propose the first complete millimetre survey. They cross archaeology, pigment analyses and genetic tests on the bones to identify the authors of these representations. Kakapel is the best do…
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The Kenyan rock art sometimes conceals human archives of unexpected richness. The Kakapel site, in the granite hills of the district of Busia, concentrates on the same wall the traces of four distinct peoples. Researchers from the University of Witwatersrand propose the first complete millimetre survey. They cross archaeology, pigment analyses and genetic tests on the bones to identify the authors of these representations. Kakapel is the best do…

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Science-et-vie.com broke the news on Tuesday, May 19, 2026.
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