🇯🇴 Jordan · Earthwork
Jibal al-Khashabiyeh Kites
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.
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6 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Pottery Neolithic · Black Desert pastoral foragers
Jabal Wisad plateau kites: 14 funnels on Black Desert inselberg above Neolithic Wisad Pools.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Late to Pottery Neolithic (7200–6200 BCE) · Black Desert PPNB pastoral hunters (Wisad Pools group)
11 central plateau kites 730 m: funnel walls 280–620 m to star pens with chert anvil, highest packing density on Wisad.
🇯🇴 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.
🇮🇱 Israel · Earthwork
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).
🇯🇴 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 · Geoglyph
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Late Neolithic · PPN / Yarmoukian pastoralists
45 PPNB desert kites (8000–5500 BCE) — southern extension of Khashabiyeh mega-cluster.
