Koonalda Cave

Kogon Koonalda kogon kogo ne a jihar Ostiraliya ta Kudu Ostireliya, akan tudun Nullarbor . Tana cikin Yankin Kariyar Dajin Nullarbor,  yamma da gidan titin Nullarbor  da  arewa maso gabas daga Eucla, Western Australia .   Yana da sananne a matsayin wurin binciken kayan tarihi .  

ID Lewis ya kwatanta kogon a cikin 1976 da: Babban doline 60m a diam. kuma zurfin 25m; gangaren talus zuwa manyan manyan hanyoyi guda biyu da aka haɗa da babbar taga; jimlar tsawon kogo 1200m; tafkuna uku a -80m; kunkuntar sararin sama sama da tafkin na uku yana kaiwa zuwa diam 45m. dome da tafkin; wani 30m din ya kai wannan...Dubban murabba'in murabba'in mita a cikin kogon an rufe su a layi daya da layukan geometric masu alamar yatsa, zane-zane na Aboriginan Australiya wanda aka yi kwanan watan shekaru 20,000.  

An yi watsi da kogon shekaru 19,000 da suka wuce, kuma masana ilmin kimiya na kayan tarihi sun sake gano shi a cikin 1956.  Binciken alamun yatsa da ajiyar kayan tarihi ya nuna cewa mutanen Aborigin sun yi amfani da kogon shekaru 22,000 da suka wuce. 

Wani balaguron da Kyaftin JM Thompson ya jagoranta ne ya binciko kogon a shekarar 1935. Tawagar ta shiga cikin kogon ta wani tsani kuma suka tsinci kansu a cikin wani daki  a tsayi. 

A cikin 1960s, Alexander Gallus ya hako kogon, wanda ya gano cewa mutanen Aboriginal sun haƙa dutse a can. 

An ayyana Koonalda Cave a matsayin yanki da aka haramta a ƙarƙashin Dokar Kariya na Aboriginal da Tarihi na Tarihi na Kudancin Australiya 1965 akan 30 Mayu 1968.  An jera shi a kan Rijistar Gado na Kudancin Australiya a ranar 4 ga Maris 1993 kuma an rubuta shi a cikin jerin abubuwan al'adun gargajiya na Australiya a kan 15 Oktoba 2014   kuma jera shi a yanzu. Rajista na ƙasa . 

A cikin watan Disamba na 2022, an ba da rahoton cewa wasu barasa sun lalata wasu kayan zanen da suka samu shiga kogon ba bisa ka'ida ba a wani lokaci tun watan Yuni, lamarin da ya jawo kiraye-kirayen al'ummar yankin Mirning, wadanda ke ganin wurin a matsayin mai tsarki, ga gwamnatocin jihohi da na tarayya da su inganta tsaro da kariya ta doka ga kogon.   A cikin Maris 2023 Gwamnatin Ostiraliya ta yi alkawarin dala 400,000 don inganta tsaron kogon, gami da sanya kyamarori. Cominos, Christian (30 March 2023). 

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