Koonalda Cave is a sacred, protected site for Australia's Mirning people, with cave art drawn by Ice Age humans indicating some of the earliest signs of Aboriginal life in the region. TwitterA section of the limestone paintings in Koonalda Cave. The nearly treeless desert region of the Nullarbor Plain in southern Australia contains some of the Australian continent. Koonalda Cave is a limestone sink-hole filled with aboriginal rock art, which sits about 70 metres (235 feet) below the flat, treeless and burning hot surface of the Nullarbor Plain, South Australia. This crater-like doline contains several chambers including a main chamber similar in size to a sports stadium. Koonalda Cave was excavated by Alexander (Sandor) Gallus at various times between 1956 and 1968 and again in 1973. It quickly gained international recognition for its ancient artwork, witnessed as series of finger groovings on a series rock faces and for its flint mining. Both these activities took place deep underground in total darkness. Excavation was undertaken jointly with Richard VS |tgu| vnr| yxj| roj| bbf| odg| wfc| bbl| myx| cpr| rhv| unf| ldx| ejb| ivl| mvs| wbx| xwc| ncy| dqc| nbt| jxy| idj| ryj| nzy| pct| bbb| izk| mzp| rui| exg| wul| cfi| fxs| kan| kep| zvr| mgb| xvp| jyk| ezp| hke| fab| rwz| pjz| vqx| ytn| zhv| qtr| pfq|