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Jabal Wisad North Basalt Plateau Extension Kites (Northern Plateau Table)
PPNB (7400–6400 BCE) · PPNB pastoral hunters
Northern extension of Jabal Wisad basalt table plateau (735 m) 5 km north of classic central plateau.
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Jabal Wisad East Fallout Kites (Eastern Piedmont Debris Fan)
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Late to Pottery Neolithic (7000–6000 BCE) · Wisad east fan pastoral hunters
9 eastern tephra-fan kites 685 m: Y-branch walls 180–420 m and oval pens with desert wheels and fossilized hoof prints.
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Jebel Abu Khashaba North Ridge Kites (Northern Khashabiyeh Ridge Extension)
PPNA–PPNB Early to Late (8400–6500 BCE) · Jibal al-Khashabiyeh SE Jordan PPNA Ghassanian trappers
10 long-arm ridge kites 920 m: walls 520–1450 m to 12–16 m single-pit bag pens with pillar stone 1:10 scale kite engraving.
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Maitland East Mesa Kite Chain (Ghabit–Maitland Corridor)
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Black Desert ridge pastoralists
Ridge chain ESE of Maitland's Mesa: 9 notch-anchored kites along 6.2 km Ghabit basalt ridge.
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Jabal Ithnayn East Col Kites (Twin Peaks Eastern Pass)
PPNB Late to LN (7000–5500 BCE) · Ithnayn twin-cone pass trappers (Maitland–Kheshabiyeh fringe)
6 pass-straddling kites 740 m: 900 m walls ascend 38° cone slopes to dual opposing pens in 420 m col — only ridge-break kite system.
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Harrat al-Harrah Kite Cluster (Eastern Jordan Highlands)
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…
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Wadi Rum Kite Corridor – Hisma Desert
Late Neolithic · Hisma Neolithic pastoralists
21 Late Neolithic sandstone kites (6000–4500 BCE) against Wadi Rum inselbergs — southernmost Levantine corridor.
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Jabal Wisad West Hamada Kites (Western Piedmont Lines)
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (7200–6200 BCE) · PPNB Black Desert hunters
West hamada piedmont 6 km west of Jabal Wisad inselberg (690 m) on flat basalt pavement with scattered chert.
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Jabal Wisad Southwest Wadi Throat Kites (Wadi Wisad Narrows)
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B–C (7000–5800 BCE) · Late PPNB/PPNC
Wadi throat where Wadi Wisad narrows to 45 m between basalt bluffs 8 km southwest of plateau (675 m).
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Maitland's Mesa Eastern Wadi Arm Kites (Wadi al-Qattafi East Arm Spur)
PPNB–Late Neolithic (7100–5500 BCE) · PPNB–Late Neolithic
Eastern spur of Wadi al-Qattafi system 8 km east of Maitland's Mesa (685 m) toward Jibal al-Khashabiyeh kite corridor (Kennedy).
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Wadi al-Qattafi West Mesa Escarpment Kites (Western Escarpment M-2 Chain)
PPNB (7300–6500 BCE) · PPNB
Western escarpment of Wadi al-Qattafi headwaters (695 m) where wadi initiates in southcentral basalt fields (Toms 2021).
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Jibal al-Khashabiya Desert Kites & Shrine Complex (SE Jordan Desert)
PPNB to Late Neolithic (Ghassanian) · Southeastern Badia foragers
Eight kites with engraved kite petroglyph pillar and twin shrines on chert pavement southeast of Amman.