Had an amazing time in Ardèche at PPN11, which I co-organized with the Archéorient team. Great energy and discussions. I also shared my talk on Functional evidence of mass hunting practices related to #DesertKites Users. Thank you all! Looking forward to the next meeting! @archeorient.bsky.social

Studying the Ghassanian clubs from Jordanian desert in really good company 😻 #Neolithic #DesertKites #usewear #Amman #CatLife

Bonjour BlueSky
Aujourd'hui notre BD débarque dans votre librairie :
#surlestracesdesarchéologues #nicolagobbi #steinkis #desertkites #cnrs #inSHS #MOM #Archéorient

Weil die Frage aufkam, inwiefern denn so ein kleines Mäuerchen als #Jagdfalle dienen könne ...

Man kann sich das ganz ähnlich der bekannten #DesertKites ("Wüstendrachen" - nicht etwa wie das Fabeltier 🐉, sondern das Fluggerät 🪁)...

The Middle East Is Dotted With Thousands of Puzzling Kite-Shaped Structures Some of them are comparable in size to the famous Nazca Lines in Peru.

Weil die Frage aufkam, inwiefern denn so ein kleines Mäuerchen als #Jagdfalle dienen könne ...

Man kann sich das ganz ähnlich der bekannten #DesertKites ("Wüstendrachen" - nicht wie das Fabeltier 🐉, sondern das Fluggerät 🪁) vorstellen:

www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kit...

"Wait, what are #DesertKites?!" you ask? 😉

https://x.com/jens2go/status/1207652409427845121?s=20

#Neolithic #DesertKites back in the news! Thanks to a new study (by esteemed colleagues) on some of the #RockArt not only depicting those #hunting traps, but apparently did so *to...

Additional background information about the fascinating archaeological phenomenon posed by these #DesertKites (and the discussion regarding their interpretation) also here:

Still not enough, want to know it all?

Then I’m definitely going to recommend this brilliant summary by @RemCracra et al. "Addressing the #DesertKites Phenomenon and Its Global Range" in Journ. of Archaeological Method and Theory 22(4),...

A couple of such images were e.g. collected and published by P.-L. van Berg et al. in their Paléorient 30(1), 2004 paper on the "#DesertKites of the #Hemma Plateau (Hassake, #Syria)":

www.researchgate.net/publication/251028870_De...

These #DesertKites’ function has long been debated ever since, oscillating between hunting traps and herding corrals ...

www.researchgate.net/publication/329560026_De...

The project‘s looking into so-called #DesertKites, giant geometric stone structures - in a global perspective. So far covering such finds in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, up to Armenia, and Kazakhstan.

Just have a look at their awesome interactive...

The Middle East Is Dotted With Thousands of Puzzling Kite... Some of them are comparable in size to the famous Nazca L...

Some really nice (and pretty comprehensive) article on the Neolithic (and younger) #DesertKites phenomenon and colleagues' #GlobalKites project.

www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kites-of-the-mi... by @SquigglyVolcano via @atlasobscura

These constructions are rather common in the deserts of eastern Jordan, Israel‘s Negev, & Egypt‘s Sinai and date back as far as the 4th millennium BC.

Here‘s a great overview on the #DesertKites of southeastern #Jordan - by my colleague...

As #DesertKites, if you’re not familiar with this term, archaeologists basically understand large hunting traps. With the help of long dry-stone walls herds are directed into confined spaces, where they are trapped ... and ultimately...