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Koonalda Cave is a cave located in Nullarbor Plain within South Australia which is notable as an archeological site.〔("Koonalda Cave" ), ''Encyclopædia Britannica〕〔("Koonalda Cave" ) ''Australia Thru Time''. Retrieved 2014-3-17.〕 Thousands of square metres in the cave are covered in parallel finger-marked geometric lines and patterns, Indigenous Australian artwork which has been dated as 20,000 years old,〔〔("Koonalda" ), Minnesota State University〕 making it older than any known prehistoric art in Europe.〔BLAINEY, Geoffrey, ''Triumph of the Nomads: A History of Aboriginal Australia'', 1976, ISBN 0-87951-084-6, p.84〕 It is located about north east from Eucla〔 within the Nullarbor Wilderness Protection Area.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/bf6977cb-f1f9-4700-9b5f-a35500fda94f/protected-areas-of-south-australia-map.pdf )〕 The cave was abandoned 19,000 years ago, and rediscovered by archeologists in 1956.〔 The cave was explored by an expedition led by Captain J. M. Thompson in 1935. The team entered the cave by a ladder and found themselves in a chamber some in circumference and walked down tunnels over in length. Later excavated by Alexander Gallus in the 1960s, he found that Aboriginal peoples had used the area as a flint mine. Koonalda Cave was inscribed onto the Australian National Heritage List on 15 October 2014〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/places/national/koonalda )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Koonalda Cave」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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