🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Wadi al-Qattafi Kite Field (Three-Arm Wadi System)
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic (Ghassulian) · Black Desert nomadics
Three-arm wadi with 38 kites on basalt mesas above the Qa al-Qattafi playa: densest Black Desert kite field.
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🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic (Ghassulian) · Black Desert nomadics
Three-arm wadi with 38 kites on basalt mesas above the Qa al-Qattafi playa: densest Black Desert kite field.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
PPNB Late–PN (7100–6000 BCE) · Maitland Mesa chapel-associated trappers (SE Badia Late Neolithic)
8 Maitland triangular-pen kites 750 m with chapel 40 m from pen QEM-03 — quern butchery slab and infant burial chapel.
🇯🇴 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 · Earthwork
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Eastern Badia Neolithic pastoral-hunters
16 interlinked limestone kite traps (5000-3500 BCE) forming 1.2-km chain blocking wadi mouths on Jibal al-Khashabiyeh.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Earthwork
Late Neolithic to Bronze Age (~5500–2500 BCE; Wheels c.8500 BCE claimed recently) · Levantine Neolithic pastoralist
Scattered across the Azraq lava fields and limestone hammada, geometric Wheels 25–70 m in diameter consist of outer ring, radial spokes and central cairn, often attached to kite tails or isolated on…