Walls, ramps and pits: the construction of the Samar Desert kites, southern Negev, Israel

• Autores: Dani Nadel, Guy Bar-Oz, Uzi Avner, Elizabetta Boaretto, Dan Malkinson
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 84, Nº 326, 2010, págs. 976-992
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Archaeological investigations of "desert kites" in south Israel show them to have been animal traps of considerable sophistication and capacity, constructed in the Early Bronze Age or earlier. Extensive stone-wall arms gather in gazelles from their habitual trails and canalise them into a sunken enclosure, cunningly hidden from view of the galloping herd until it was too late...