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Desert kites (Arabic: مصائد صحراوية, romanized: maṣāyid ṣaḥrāwīa, 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.

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  • مصائد صحراوية (ar)
  • Wüstendrachen (de)
  • Desert kite (en)
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  • المصائد الصحراوية هي حجارة مرصوفة على نحو دائري تمتد على كيلومترات في صحراء الشام في ومجمل الجزيرة العربية. يرجع بناؤها إلى ما بين 3000 و5000 عام،. يصل قطر إحداها إلى 400 متر وكان يستخدمها الناس بغرض اصطياد الحيوانات البرية حيث يتم توجيهها إلى الممرات التي تفضي إلى الدائرة التي تكون كمصيدة تمكنهم من القبض عليها. ولقد عثر على 3000 موقع في الأردن، و2000 في المملكة العربية السعودية. (ar)
  • Mit Wüstendrachen werden in der Archäologie kilometerlange Steinaufschüttungen bezeichnet, deren Ausmaß nur im Luftbild genau erkennbar ist. Sie ähneln einem spitz zulaufenden Dreieck oder Hufeisen. Sie stammen aus dem Epipaläolithikum und Neolithikum, ihre Verbreitung beschränkt sich auf die Wüstengebiete der Levante und dem nordwestlichen Saudi-Arabien und entstammen der Zeit zwischen 10.000 und 3.000 Jahren vor heute. Lange Zeit war der Zweck dieser offensichtlich von Menschenhand geschaffenen Strukturen unklar. Ihr Name rührt von der Ähnlichkeit zu lenkbaren Drachen im Luftbild her. von der Universität Haifa sieht in den nahe der 6000 Jahre alten Siedlung im Nordosten Syriens entdeckten über 2500 Gazellenknochen eine Bestätigung der lange gehegten Vermutung, dass es sich um prähistori (de)
  • Desert kites (Arabic: مصائد صحراوية, romanized: maṣāyid ṣaḥrāwīa, 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. (en)
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