🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Jibal al-Khashabiyeh South Kite Field
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Late Neolithic · PPN / Yarmoukian pastoralists
45 PPNB desert kites (8000–5500 BCE) — southern extension of Khashabiyeh mega-cluster.
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🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Late Neolithic · PPN / Yarmoukian pastoralists
45 PPNB desert kites (8000–5500 BCE) — southern extension of Khashabiyeh mega-cluster.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
PPNB to Chalcolithic · Badia Neolithic playa-foragers
North Qa' al-Qattafi: 8 playa hardpan kites semicircular on 10 km² pan edge.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
PPNB to Late Neolithic · Eastern Badia Neolithic
Wisad north ridge: 5 radial kites on 45-m hill summit above Black Desert hamada.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Earthwork
Late Neolithic, Eastern Badia Neolithic · Eastern Badia Late Neolithic hunters
7 mustatil enclosures (5500-5100 BCE) on Wadi al-Khub hammada, northernmost Levantine mustatil bridging Arabia to Jordan kite province.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Neolithic to Mamluk (c.8000 BCE–1500 CE; Decapolis peak 63 BCE–400 CE) · Neolithic → Canaanite → Hellenistic Decapolis → Roman → Byzantine → Islamic
Pella (Tabaqat Fahl) is a 4000-year mound and Decapolis Greco-Roman city in Jordan Valley — with Neolithic village (Sha'ar Hagolan–related) through Canaanite–Eg...
🇯🇴 Jordan · Earthwork
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Bronze Age (~7000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic–Chalcolithic hunter-pastoralist
Over 5,800 kite structures sprawl across the harraat basalt deserts of Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia, each comprising two converging low walls up to 5 km long funneling gazelle herds into a stone…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Neolithic (Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) · Late PPNB steppe-hunting tradition
Eastern rim kite chain of the Jordanian Harrat basalt plain (880 m, 31°02′21″N 37°30′00″E) where basalt peneplain meets limestone Hamad: 18 desert kites arrayed along 17 km N-S per Jibal…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Late Neolithic · Eastern Badia Late Neolithic pastoral-hunting
Wisad south kite chain: 7 desert kites (8500–6200 BCE) on Black Desert basalt, 6 km SSE of pools.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
PPNB to Late Neolithic · Badia Neolithic peak-pass hunters
Jabal Ithnayn twin-peak gap: 5 kites using two 35-m basalt peaks as natural funnel walls.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Ain Ghazal — Plaster Statue Cache East in Amman Governorate, Ayn Ghazal, Jordan is a Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) ancient village attributed t…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
PPNA to Yarmoukian Pottery Neolithic · PPNA → MPPNB/LPPNB (Zarqa valley) → Yarmoukian
PPNB village (8800–6800 BCE) under Zarqa alluvium — two-storey houses, communal red building and early lentil cultivation, north Levant PPNB seal.