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Excavation ongoing archaeological wonders matching “Negev”

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🇮🇱 Israel · Earthwork

Negev Desert Kites – Har Harif & Avdat

PPNB to Early Bronze Age · Levantine Neolithic pastoral-hunters

100 Negev kites on desert plateau—30-cm walls funneling gazelle into live-capture pens (7000–3000 BCE).

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🇯🇴 Jordan · Earthwork

Desert Kites of Jordan and Syria

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…