Converging drystone walls in the Middle East, to aid in hunting herd animals
A kite in the Samar Desert
Desert kites (Arabic: مصائد صحراوية, romanized: maṣāʾid ṣaḥrāwiyya, lit. 'desert traps') are dry stone wall structures found in Southwest Asia (Middle East, but also North Africa, Central Asia and Arabia), which were first discovered from the air during the 1920s. There are over 6,000 known desert kites, with sizes ranging from less than a hundred metres to several kilometres. They typically have a kite shape formed by two convergent "antennae" that run towards an enclosure, all formed by walls of dry stone less than one metre high, but variations exist.
Little is known about their ages, but the few dated examples appear to span the entire Holocene. The majority view on their purpose is that they were used as traps for hunting game animals such as gazelles, which were driven into the kites and hunted there.
Desertkites (Arabic: مصائد صحراوية, romanized: maṣāʾid ṣaḥrāwiyya, lit. 'desert traps') are dry stone wall structures found in Southwest Asia (Middle...
Researchers have studied hundreds of large stone structures nicknamed "desertkites" and "gates", but their exact purpose and function is still unknown....
inukshuk, an upright monolith slab, a medicine wheel, a fire pit, a desertkite, sculpted boulders, or simply rocks lined up or stacked for various reasons...
except for the Congo Basin and the Sahara Desert. There have been some suggestions that the black-eared kite (M. m. lineatus) should be elevated to full...
related to Buffalo jumps. Bison hunting Game drive system Petroform Desertkite A Buffalo Jump Archived November 24, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Discovering...
the Oosterschelde near Bergen op Zoom in the Netherlands (aerial view) Desertkite Fish screen Mnjikaning Fish Weirs Tailrace fishing Weir "Fishgarth"....
Transat des Sables and Gobi Kite Buggy Challenge, or the Mad way south Sahara challenge, a 2200 km attempt to cross the desert. "Miniyachts" are small land...
that rhinoceros were hunted in Yunnan using pit traps. Animal trapping Desertkite Pitfall trap Punji sticks Trou de loup NIKU Tema 7: På vandring i fortiden...
repeatedly used over many years. Examples include buffalo jumps and desertkites. In the Rocky Mountain National Park, for instance, there are archeological...
The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 square kilometres (350,000 sq mi), covering much of Botswana...
Thomas Oliver Kite Jr. (born December 9, 1949) is an American professional golfer and golf course architect. He won the U.S. Open in 1992 and spent 175...
The Desert Classic (currently known as The American Express for sponsorship reasons; previously known as the CareerBuilder Challenge, Palm Springs Golf...
6000 BCE Fragment of Samarra pottery. Samarra bowl, circa 4000 BCE DesertKites Hassuna culture History of Mesopotamia Blackham, Mark (1996). "Further...
to 60+ mph across parking lots, desert dry lakes, grassy fields, and sandy beaches. Four-line, steerable para-foil kites are used as the power source. Typically...
Advantour. Retrieved 16 August 2016. Media related to Ustyurt at Wikimedia Commons Hundreds of desertkites in the Ustyurt. Nat. Geographic v t e v t e...
Selappayu in Akkadian records, and a clue to their origin is their use of desertkites and game traps, first appearing in archaeological records around 7000...
Some 6,000 years ago, they were captured and killed with the help of desertkites. Rock art found in Jordan suggests that it was slaughtered ritually....
The Desert of Wales, or Green Desert of Wales, is an archaic term for an area in central Wales, so called for its lack of roads and towns, and its inaccessibility...
tournament was held in Arizona at the Cochise Golf Course of the Golf Club at Desert Mountain in Scottsdale. In 2002, it was held at the Prospector Course of...
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