Koonalda Cave
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Koonalda Cave is an important archeological site[1] in Nullarbor Plain, in South Australia.
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[2] [3], making it older than any known prehistoric art in Europe.[4]
The cave was abandoned 19,000 years ago, and rediscovered by archeologists in 1956.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ "Koonalda Cave", Encyclopaedia Britannica
- ^ "Koonalda Cave", Encyclopaedia Britannica
- ^ "Koonalda", Minnesota State University
- ^ BLAINEY, Geoffrey, Triumph of the Nomads: A History of Aboriginal Australia, 1976, ISBN 0-87951-084-6, p.84
- ^ "Koonalda", Minnesota State University
