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Zambia Chewa
Simbo Hill I
Site
Brief description of site: The south end of the hill is almost bare rock. In one place a huge boulder has broken away, leaving a gap behind it. The paintings are under a huge overhang facing south.
Brief description of art: The art is painted in red, white and purple and consists of red grids that are overlain first by red and white bichromes, and then by white grids and linear anthromorphs, zoomorphs figures.
Mkoma I
Site
Brief description of site: The site is in a large rock shelter in the east side of an isolated rock shelter rising 18m above the plain. The site faces ESE and contains a large number of paintings.
Brief description of art: The art consists of schematic bichrome designs in a dark reddish purple, yellow and white and includes grids as well as parallel lines.
Kalemba I
Site
Brief description of art: Late Whites. The art consists of faint traces of red schematics including three grids. There are also some buff figures and two notably crude animals. All the images are overlain by white grids, circles and anths (?).
Chipwete I
Site
Brief description of art: The images are on a large granite domed mountain, the images are red and are positioned on the Northern wall and are heavily flaked. There is evidence of attempts to remove the images by hammering, this was before the white motifs were added.